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The southern colonies major economic activity was farming and a lot of slavery!!
The Southern colonies economic activity was mainly agricultural. Some of the main crops that were grown were rice and tobacco.
Agriculture was the major economic activity in the southern colonies. The most important crops were tobacco, sugarcane, and cotton, the latter especially in the Deep South.
The towns were small fishing villages, trade markets, or centers of economic activity.
new England colonies
Shipbuilding, fishing and small manufacturing services were the main types of economic endeavors that took place during the Middle Colonies. Agriculture was also important to the economics of the middle Colonies.
economic reasons
Farming/Ports
Agriculture.
It sounds like you may be living in one of the New England colonies in the early American history, where slavery was practiced in industries like iron production and shipbuilding. These colonies, such as Massachusetts or Rhode Island, relied on enslaved labor for economic development during that time period.
Farming/Ports
During the American Colonial and Revolutionary Periods, the economic activity that encouraged slavery in the southernmost American colonies was agriculture. While the North focused on manufacturing and trade, the South depended almost entirely on the growth of crops, including the labor-intensive crop of cotton. Slaves provided Southern growers with large groups of laborers at very low cost.