The cities of new york, baltimore, and philadelphia began to become wealthy in the late-1600s because of what economic activity? a) trading b) slavery c) rice farming d) tobacco farming

The best and most correct answer among the choices provided by the question is the fourth choice "tobacco farming"

Virginia operated under "cash-crop" agriculture (tobacco is grown for sale, not for so the tobacco inside would not rot or be spoiled by seawater during delivery. The first hogsheads in the mid-1600's weighed 500 pounds, "[b]ut over time the ... tighter economic interdependency with Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York.
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