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Regional Economic System: New England, The Southern Colonies, And The Caribbean
The regional economic system consisted of New England, the Middle Colonies, the Southern Colonies, and the Caribbean. “Social and economic changes tend to reinforce the differences…while important cultural and political developments tugged in the opposite direction…” (Roark 2012, 4). This is just an explanation that this economic system had reasons that kept them unified but they had many factors that separated them from each other through the way each system developed in its own way. Chief products in the economic systems varied based on the terrane of the land. For example, New England’s export was fish, while the Middle Colonies exported mostly grain products and the Southern Colonies exported lots of tobacco and rice (9/13/16, 22 & 25).
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