Communism aswell as anti-communism, socialism and liberalism, feminism and sexism,racism and antiracism, pacifism and militarism, are examples of wide-spread ideologies â which may be more or less positive or negative de-pending on our point of view or group membership.
Tobacco was the American colonies' chief export. The Jamestown colonists had not found gold, nor a route to the South Seas, nor the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island. But they had found tobacco. Tobacco had brought the settlement from wretched failure to giddying success.
Rice was not a cash crop for the southern colonies but tobacco,  indigo, and corn wheat were. In addition, perhaps the biggest cash  crop grown in the southern colonies was â¦cotton. The South grew to  rely so heavily on cotton and the money it generated that it began  to direct their society, leading to the Southern dependence on  slavery. 11 people found this useful.