It was based on cash crop farming.=] =) ;)
Middle Colonies
The middle colonies based their economy on the planting of wheat, and trade. A lot of areas were great for ports. Meaning, that the middle colonies conducted trade between the New England and Southern Colonies. Also, the areas in the middle colonies were used in trade with European nations. Wheat also soon became a very profitable item as well.
Merchant and family farms
Mainly Agriculture, Manufacturing and some trade.
farmers
The economy of the Middle Colonies was not characterized by plantation agriculture. The Southern Colonies had an economy based on plantation agriculture.
Middle Colonies
The basic needs of the middle colonies are good soil, and good climate because that is what their economy is based on, agriculture.
The affect that geography had on the economy of the middle Colonies was to help the economy. Farming was the main source of the economy and the fertile soil, and Natural Resources aided the Middle Colonies economy.
The middle colonies based their economy on the planting of wheat, and trade. A lot of areas were great for ports. Meaning, that the middle colonies conducted trade between the New England and Southern Colonies. Also, the areas in the middle colonies were used in trade with European nations. Wheat also soon became a very profitable item as well.
Merchant and family farms
Mainly Agriculture, Manufacturing and some trade.
farmers
The middle colonies
Family farms and merchants
what is it based on slave labor
The South's economy was based on Farming. They used African American Slaves to do the work. There were few factories, unlike the North who had an industrial economy.