SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE MIDDLE COLONIES NEW YORK DELAWARE NEW JERSEY PENNSYLVANIA
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Their geography encouraged trade.
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Their landforms supported plantation agriculture.
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Their waterways made it possible to travel long distances.
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Their climate favored farming of a wide variety of crops.
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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. The Middle colonies also featured mixed economies, including farming and merchant shipping.
Detailed explanation-2: -How did the geography of the New England and Middle Colonies contribute to their economic development? New England: small farms, located on the outskirts of town, and infertile soil made farming difficult. Middle colonies: New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. The climate is suitable in agriculture.
Detailed explanation-3: -In contrast to the South where the cash crop plantation system dominated, and New England whose rocky soil made large-scale agriculture difficult, The middle colonies were fertile. Land was generally acquired more easily than in New England or in the plantation South.
Detailed explanation-4: -Trade with the other colonies was helpful to the people of the New England colonies because it brought them farm goods they needed. The New England colonies did not have good soil for farming and couldn’t grow many farm goods.