MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
PRESIDENT JOHN ADAMS FROM ALIEN AND SEDITION ACTS TO XYZ AFFAIR
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port cities
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farming communities
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industrial centers
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military outposts
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Detailed explanation-1: -Both colonies were established to bring wealth to stockholders.
Detailed explanation-2: -How did geography influence the early economic development of New York, Boston, and Charleston? Long coastlines offered abundant natural resources. Proximity to flooding rivers limited development. Natural harbors provided access to markets.
Detailed explanation-3: -The New England colonies, however, were full of forests, giving the colonists the important natural resource of trees. These trees provided wood that colonists were able to use to build homes, buildings, and ships. Lumber became very important to the shipbuilding industry because they built ships for the colonies.
Detailed explanation-4: -There was an abundance of oak forests that provided wood for the ships. In the late 1680s “there were more than 2 dozen sawmills around the Maine and Massachusetts areas. These sawmills, along with a dense supply of wood, helped to increase the business of colonial shipbuilding.