SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
FOUNDING OF THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
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they were the things that the colonists brought with them to the New World
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they were all items that the Native Americans showed the colonists
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they were all goods that were traded
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they are only found in the New England colonies
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -New England and the Middle Colonies exported a wide range of products including iron, wheat, livestock, whale oil, fish, and rum, worth about £500, 000 annually.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -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.