The company towns reinforced it by having special wages for people of different ethnicity or by racially profiling and segregating those that they didn't want to be equal with Caucasian workers. This caused an even bigger drift between people and distrust to arise.
Answer
Agriculture
Explanation
During the early years the expansion of many countries to foreign countries was for the search of gold. Most of them were the Europeans expansion to America. They then mined all the gold in the Caribbean Island and then after that they started practicing agriculture.
The farmed on different types of crops and they were able to produce more raw materials for their industries and also the fast foods which sustained their live hood.
Simply, it was an old region + part of the 16 Mahajanapadas, in modern day it is known as south Bihar
