Irrigation allowed crops to be grown further away.
The answer is that early on the English were looking for a "Northwest Passage". This would be a shorter trade route to East Asia. For a long time it was believed that there was a large body of water in North America that would lead to the Orient. The English were interested in the raw materials that they could find in North America, including the islands of the Caribbean.
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Sally ran a government agency to locate missing soldiers, James wrote a letter about unequal pay for black soldiers, and Carla founded a hospital.
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