SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
FOUNDING OF THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
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New England
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Mid-Atlantic
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Southern
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Middle colonies, like Delaware, New York, and New Jersey, were founded as trade centers, while Pennsylvania was founded as a safe haven for Quakers.
Detailed explanation-2: -The New England colonies were flat along the rocky coastline, which made good harbors.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -The New England Colonies trade and the economy depended largely on the ocean. This region was the most northern in the 13 colonies.
Detailed explanation-5: -Southern Colonies Whereas New England farmers were subsistence farmers, farming just enough for their families, and Middle Atlantic farmers used a system of mixed farming, raising a variety of crops and some livestock, large-scale Southern farmers were one-crop farmers.