No, sugar was not the main export of New England. The region's economy during the colonial period was more focused on trade, fishing, shipbuilding, and products like rum, which was made from molasses—a byproduct of sugar production in the Caribbean. New England's exports were diverse, including timber, fish, and manufactured goods, rather than sugar itself.
D. Sugar, Coins, Molasses, and enslaved africans
D. Sugar, Coins, Molasses, and enslaved africans
they sent out slaves and rum in return for sugar spices and fur
New England's primary export would have been fish and/or lumber. Due to their unhospitable rocky and shallow soil agriculture on a grand scale was impossible. Therefore they turned to the natural products available in their geographical region.
A export is things that a place sends out to another country to make money. In New England, a major export was cattle, lumber, fish and fur.
Sugar revolution is a new opening or new beginning for the sugar industry .It was made known that tobacco was the main export product in Europe but the Europeans sought it more or thought that sugar would bring more income to them and it would make them richer.
Fishing was indeed a major export industry in the New England colonies. This was because fishing was what these people knew how to do.
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Spices
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