What is the primary purpose of growing a cash crop?

To provide food for the farmer's family

To be sold in a market for money

To be used in religious ceremonies

To improve the quality of the soil

After Europeans learned that plants like tobacco were valuable, what did they begin to do in the Americas?

They stopped exploring and returned home

They started large farms to grow these plants

They only took seeds back to Europe to grow there

They banned the use of such plants

It was used as a medicine by Native Americans.

It was easy to transport back to Europe on ships.

It was grown to be sold for a large amount of money, not just for food.

It grew very quickly in the American climate.

It slowed settlement because farming was difficult.

It encouraged more people to settle in the Americas to create farms.

It had no effect on settlement.

It caused settlers to focus only on finding gold.

A new trade system across the Atlantic Ocean

Trade only between European settlements

The closing of European markets