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Colonial Areas In New England
During the Colonial Era, there were few colonial in each regions of America such as New England, Southern, or Middle Atlantic. These Regions were the most important colonial areas during the Colonial Era, where it provided religions, food, cash crops, tobacco, and they also traded with each other countries which resulted lots of money. For the background of Colonial Era, they started by the conflicts between Catholics, where it was corrupted during this time period, and Protestants, who were reforming a church without a Pope. Because they had conflicts between the Catholics and Protestant, the Protestants moved to this New America to be separated from the Catholics. And Protestants landed at three regions, which were New England, Southern colonies, and Middle Atlantic. …show more content…
Also they build agriculture as their basic economy because of the good soils and climates of those regions, and have these workers to do this work for their own goods. They traded raw materials to other countries for money and also to their motherland England, which called Mercantilism. Mercantilism is one of the Trading Raw materials such as lumber, Tobacco; food stuffs … etc to the motherland, then the motherland, which was England, sells the raw materials and finished the products to world. But they also had differences between them in economic. In New England, the mayflower impact was the one of the first document that was made in America, which was led by the separatists. In Southern Colonies had mostly agricultures, and used African-American indentured servants, who were signed contract for 7 years to work, basically slave. In Middle Atlantic, they were near the Bay so they had to trade with other countries, shipping industries, and agriculture

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