New England and the Chesapeake people …show more content…
Once the population started booming because of this, more people decided to sell their food in exchange for some sort of labor. When people moved over to the new world, they discovered that farming could make you a lot of money. The climate in the south was more desirable for Farming. At first, the Chesapeake people were not interested in Planting at all all they were interested in was finding gold, and they were starving because of it. They truly believed that the Native Americans would give them the food they needed while they searched for food. Oh, how they were wrong. A man named John Smith controlled them and told them to farm to survive. John Rolfe was the man who discovered Tobacco and knew how to export it. Soon everyone started to get rich off of this tobacco trade. The problem was it is a very labor intensive crop and called for a lot of work on the farm. This lead to the uprising of indentured servitude and more importantly slave trade in the English colonies. Farming had a great influence on the southern colonies but not so much for the New England colonies. Since they had very dry air and infertile soil, The new England didn’t do much farming besides the stuff that they needed to survive. Instead of Farming, they brought in a lot of seafood for England. New England and the Chesapeake both farmed but the chesapeake made a living off of