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up until the great depression everyone believed that the power of the goverment's power should come from the people
---the people---
Answer:
tobacco
It didn't take the colonists long to realize that economic specialization would be the way to go, and tobacco became a cash crop for the colony.
Explanation:
Immigrants made up the largest percentage of workers in American industry at the time. They mostly took up jobs relating to factory work, though a few minority groups, such as the Germans, made a living as farmers.