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Compare And Contrast The New Economy And The Southern Colonies

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There were two different types of economies in the early new world ,which couldn't be any different. The southern colonies were farmers. Unlike the southern colonies new england's land was not suitable for farming, so instead the middle colonies economy relied on merchants, fishing, ship building, and skilled craftsmen. The southern colonies consisted of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,and Georgia. The main crops were cash crops such as tobacco, rice, and indigo (indigo was an ingredient in blue dye). Because the southern economy relied on crops that meant an enormous amounts of labor that could withstand the new diseases that the newcomers couldn't fight, so the white settlers decided to use slaves. In specifics africans
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