In South Carolina and Georgia, the main cash crops were indigo and rice.
Things were destroyed, people were killed, and it was a long line of pain and loss. It took a long time for people to get back on their feet, but they did.
The theory of mercantilism motivated overseas exploration as it posited that a country's power depended mainly on its wealth. Consequently, various nations sought to increase their wealth and power by establishing colonies where they could extract resources such as minerals which determined the wealth of a nation
