By the late 1700s, a long-range disadvantage of cultivating tobacco was ________.

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Tobacco is nutrient-intensive and, when grown continuously without restorative practices, rapidly depletes soil fertility. In the Chesapeake and other colonial regions, planters relied on monoculture tobacco cultivation that removed large amounts of nitrogen and other nutrients from the soil, and they rarely used crop rotation, fallowing, or manuring on a scale sufficient to replace those losses.

1) Relevant knowledge points and concepts
- Monoculture and continuous cropping exhaust specific soil nutrients.
- Tobacco, as a demanding cash crop, strips soils of fertility more quickly than many food grains.
- In the 18th-century Atlantic economy, planters tended to clear new land rather than invest in soil-rebuilding techniques, producing a pattern of land exhaustion and westward expansion.

2) Step-by-step reasoning
- Identify the crop: tobacco requires heavy nutrient uptake.
- Identify farming practice: sustained, repetitive tobacco planting without systematic replenishment.
- Infer consequence: nutrient depletion leads to declining yields and degraded land quality.
- Connect to historical outcome: planters abandoned exhausted fields and cleared new land further inland.

3) Intermediate “steps” (no numerical calculation here)
- Continuous tobacco removes key nutrients → soil fertility falls.
- Lower fertility → reduced yields and profitability.
- Reduced profitability → search for fresh land or crop diversification.

4) Why the correct answer is correct
The option “wasteful agricultural practices exhausted the land” directly names the ecological and agricultural cause-and-effect observed by the late 1700s. Soil exhaustion was a long-range disadvantage: it forced migration, changed land-use patterns, and reduced long-term productivity of original tobacco regions.

5) Why the other options are incorrect
- “Great numbers… no longer smoked tobacco”: smoking remained common; demand persisted, so consumption decline was not the long-range problem.
- “The quality of American tobacco had become harsh and dry-tasting”: quality complaints were not the systemic, region-wide issue comparable to soil exhaustion.
- “The American government stopped the exportation of tobacco”: there was no broad governmental ban on tobacco exports that caused a long-term disadvantage.

6) Conclusion
Therefore, the long-range disadvantage by the late 1700s was that wasteful agricultural practices exhausted the land, which matches the provided answer.

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