WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Geography, including regional differences in soils, rainfall, and growing seasons was the primary cause of economic differences among the colonies in North America. A result of the encounter between Europeans and Native Americans was that new diseases were spread to Native American populations.

Detailed explanation-2: -Colonial America depended on the natural environment to meet basic needs of the people and the colony. The available natural resources provided (or in essence dictated) what each region’s unique specialty would be or become. Specialized economies quickly emerged as a result of human and environmental interaction.

Detailed explanation-3: -What was a chief economic cause for colonization in America? Money, land, and religious reasons. Europe wanted access to new markets and goods. When was the colony of Jamestown founded?

Detailed explanation-4: -The motivations were the desire for riches, the hope of freedom of religion or freedom from imprisonment, debt or slavery. All of these people and these reasons contributed to the Americas early settlement.

Detailed explanation-5: -The southern colonies had large plantations that grew tobacco or cotton and required slave labor, while northern colonies had small family farms. Learn more about the economics of the 13 British colonies with these classroom resources.