Profit from seventeenth-century European colonies in the Americas was increasingly based on
A) cash crops, especially sugar and tobacco.
B) extraction of wealth, such as silver, rather than production.
C) manufactured goods produced in the colonies.
D) drugs and herbal medicines produced by the Indians.
E) the fur trade.
Ans: A
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