The correct answer is B) Such crops required more labor than could be adequately met through immigration or indenture.
Tobacco and other cash crops factored into the development of slavery in the Americas in that such crops required more labor than could be adequately met through immigration or indenture.
Southern states heavily depended on slavery to work in the plantation fields. It was a tough work to work and take care of the farming fields, so slaves played a big role to do that. Basically, there was no industry in the south compared to the industrial Northern states. For instance, tobacco in Virginia was the most important cash crop. It is said that it was John Rolfe who brought some tobacco seeds from Trinidad, a Caribbean island. These tobacco leaves were more grey and bitter than European tobacco. So more successful and with more acceptance. That is how they had to be correctly seeded and harvested.
