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Answer:
a) it could be produced easily and quickly.
Explanation:
In the colonial times of the 17th century, tobacco was "a poor man´s crop" and sugar was " a rich man´s crop," and these were the two main crops in the English settlements in the West Indies. Tobacco was easy to plant, to cultivate and its processing was not complicated. It didn´t require a large labor force per acre.
Decreasing nationalism is the answer.
