tobacco was considered a poor man's crop because is cash Between the First and Second
Between the First and Second World Wars, tobacco farmers' wages fluctuated to the point of absurdity. Farm families were temporarily relieved from impoverishment by the huge tobacco demand generated by WWI, but Tobacco had been cultivated and smoked by Native Americans for centuries before Christopher Columbus introduced it to Europe. Jane Pauley reports on how growing tobacco became America's first cash crop and Tobacco: The Most Versatile Cash Crop The Crash That Came Seven Years Early North Carolina Tobacco Farmers, 1922 The Great Depression officially started in 1929. For tobacco farmers in North Carolina, it started in 1920. Tobacco prices
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