First of all, Natural Resources in the New England colonies made shipbuilding a logical industry. Vast forests offered an abundance of timber. Textile manufacturing offered the apparatus to build sails and the growth of hemp enabled easy access to ship rigging. Finally, the fishing industry offered a homegrown market for the product.
NEW ANSWER:Some of the activities that made up the economy in early America, as far as the colonies, included:NEW ENGLAND COLONIES ~ depended on such things as fishing, lumber, and whaling.MIDDLE COLONIES ~ depended on agriculture (mostly the production of wheat), and shipping and trade.SOUTHERN COLONIES ~ depended on trade and agriculture (mostly tobacco and cotton).Other examples of other economic things that benefited the colonies included:Taverns; Sawmills; Distilleries; Paper Mills; Book Shops; Blacksmiths; and Gristmills.
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.
Pennsylvania
there were many benefits the colonies were supposed to have. They were supposed to increase the nation's economic power
Yes, They Did Live in the 13 Colonies. They Moved There From England Looking for Religious Freedom and Economic Oppurtunity.
new England colonies
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Shipbuilding, iron works, growing tobacco, and trading are some activities they would do for money.
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.
The southern colonies major economic activity was farming and a lot of slavery!!
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.
NEW ANSWER:Some of the activities that made up the economy in early America, as far as the colonies, included:NEW ENGLAND COLONIES ~ depended on such things as fishing, lumber, and whaling.MIDDLE COLONIES ~ depended on agriculture (mostly the production of wheat), and shipping and trade.SOUTHERN COLONIES ~ depended on trade and agriculture (mostly tobacco and cotton).Other examples of other economic things that benefited the colonies included:Taverns; Sawmills; Distilleries; Paper Mills; Book Shops; Blacksmiths; and Gristmills.
Livestock and grain farming.
provide raw materials for the mother country
middle: Logging, shipbuilding, textiles production, and papermaking northern:
Tourism is an important part of the Turkish economy. Other important industries in Turkey include shipbuilding and the automotive industry.
farming