SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
FOUNDING OF THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
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wampum banker, poet, and weaver
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orange grower, hat maker, and rancher
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timber miller, seafarer, and fisher
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software designer, judge, and baby namer
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Detailed explanation-1: -New England Colonies Trade The New England colonies were efficient in fishing, whaling, trapping, shipbuilding, and logging. Eventually, the New England colonies expanded in trading rum for enslaved people in the West Indies.
Detailed explanation-2: -Fish was the area’s most valuable export throughout the colonial period, though its primary trade destination shifted over the eighteenth century. By 1768, few of New England’s goods (fish, whale products, livestock, salt meat, and lumber) were headed to Britain; they were instead being sent to the West Indies.
Detailed explanation-3: -The New England colonies were made up of the colonies of Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. The New England colonies were flat along the rocky coastline, which made good harbors. It became hilly and mountainous further inland.
Detailed explanation-4: -Major industry for the colony included Agriculture (fishing, corn, livestock), Manufacturing (lumbering, shipbuilding). Natural Resources: The main natural resource in Massachusetts was timber. The timber from the region provided the raw material for shipbuilding.