SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE 13 COLONIES LIFE IN EARLY AMERICA
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shipbuilding
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farming large plantations
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Logging
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Whaling
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -The whaling industry started in the New England US coast in the 1700s, and lasted until the l930s. Among all whaling ports in the east coast of the US, those in Cape Cod were the more fructiferous in this industry, and initially most captures were done in this area.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the 1600s the American colonists hunted right whales off New England for their oil and baleen. The baleen was made into corsets, umbrella ribs, and buggy whips. The right whales were brought back to the shore for processing where the blubber was boiled for the precious oil.