USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -New England’s economy was largely dependent on the ocean. Fishing (especially codfish) was most important to the New England economy, though whaling, trapping, shipbuilding, and logging were important also.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The region’s largest industry, the manufacture of cotton textiles, also was the largest industry–that is, it employed the most workers–in the United States as a whole. The second-largest industry in New England was the manufacture of boots and shoes.

Detailed explanation-4: -New England is famous for clam chowder, Maine lobsters, Vermont maple syrup, turkey, Boston baked beans, and Boston cream pie. Boston, Massachusetts, the largest metropolitan area in the region, pre-dates the American Revolution, and its Freedom Trail passes sites critical to the nation’s founding.