Why Tobacco
Tobacco grew well in Maryland because of the warm summers and mild winters.
What is climate?
Tobacco farming slowly uses up nutrients in the soil.
What does deplete mean?
Large tobacco farms were called this.
What are plantations?
Maryland’s many rivers helped farmers move tobacco to ports
What are waterways?
Tobacco helped Maryland stay mostly this instead of industrial.
What is agricultural?
Maryland farmers needed a crop they could sell to other countries for money.
What is an export crop?
When fields were worn out, farmers had to do this.
What is move to new land?
Enslaved African Americans did most of this work.
What is growing and harvesting tobacco?
Two Maryland ports that shipped tobacco out of the colony.
What are Annapolis and Baltimore?
Maryland had one of the largest populations of these people in the 1800s.
What is free Black people?
This type of soil, made of sand and silt, helped tobacco grow well.
What is loam soil?
Tobacco needed a lot of workers to plant, harvest, dry, and ship it.
What is labor?
Wealthy farmers had more power because of this system.
What is slavery?
By the 1740s, Maryland sold about this much tobacco each year.
What is 20 million pounds?
Quakers helped enslaved people do this.
What is escape to freedom?
Tobacco was popular because people in Europe wanted to buy it.
What is high demand?
This problem helped push Maryland to grow other crops later.
What is damaged soil?
Some farmers later freed enslaved people or allowed them to do this.
What is buy their freedom?
Ships were used to move tobacco to these places.
What are other countries / Europe?
Tobacco farming was still done in only five counties by this decade.
What is the 1950s?
Farmers kept growing tobacco even though it damaged the land because it made this.
What is profit?
By the late 1800s, farming was no longer Maryland’s main type of work.
What is manufacturing?
After the Civil War, all enslaved people in Maryland gained this.
What is freedom?
This industry grew because ships were needed to export tobacco.
What is shipbuilding?
Today, tobacco barns remind people of Maryland’s past.
What is history?