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Why where the Middle colonies called the bread colonies

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The Middle colonies were called the Breadbasket colonies because their cash crop was bread. They grew rye, wheat and corn.
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The middle colonies were called The breadbaskets or bread colonies because the grew so much wheat and grain for bread.
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