Answer:
One of the most apparent problems facing the colonists was communicating with the existing inhabitants. These early settlers also experienced major food shortages and poor medical care resulting in disease and illness.
The cash crops of the southern colonies included cotton, tobacco, rice, and indigo (a plant that was used to create blue dye). In Virginia and Maryland, the main cash crop was tobacco. In South Carolina and Georgia, the main cash crops were indigo and rice.
Columbus was originally going to sail along the West African coast and around the Cape of Good Hope. But than Columbus had the idea of instead to sail west across the Atlantic instead of around the gigantic African continent.
