USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -New England merchants shipped “refuse” fish, horses, other livestock, and lumber there, allowing Caribbean planters to put slave labor to work in growing cash crops-first tobacco, then cotton or indigo, and finally sugar, the most desirable of products.

Detailed explanation-2: -In New England, it was common for individual enslaved people to learn specialized skills and crafts due to the area’s more varied economy. Ministers, doctors, tradesmen, and merchants also used enslaved labor to work alongside them and run their households.

Detailed explanation-3: -Slavery did exist in the New England and Middle colonies, just at a smaller scale. In New England, enslaved Africans accounted for about 2-3% of the population before the American Revolution.

Detailed explanation-4: -The colonial economy depended on international trade. American ships carried products such as lumber, tobacco, rice, and dried fish to Britain. In turn, the mother country sent textiles, and manufactured goods back to America.

Detailed explanation-5: -The New England colonies had rocky soil, which was not suited to plantation farming, so the New England colonies depended on fishing, lumbering, and subsistence farming. The Middle colonies also featured mixed economies, including farming and merchant shipping.