Which of the following best compares how environmental conditions in Brazilian coffee plantations
and American tobacco plantations contributed to
migration patterns?
Brazilian and American plantations in tropical
regions discouraged the growth of food crops and
limited the numbers of laborers who migrated there.
Both regions required the importation of immense
numbers of laborers to produce in-demand cash
crops that could only be grown in warm-weather
climates.
Depleted soil conditions caused both regions to shift
from cash-crop production to subsistence
agriculture, decreasing the number of workers
moving to the respective areas.
Laborers from outside the respective areas were
encouraged to immigrate to help produce additional