Question

Which economy feature was shared by the New England and the Middle colonies?

Answer 1

no one could afford a lot of things

Answer 2

temperate climates and more than adequate average rainfall, which are critical factors for maximizing agricultural production. Surplus crops provided the most important exports in all regions except in New England, although what colonists grew depended on a variety of factors such as climate, topography, and soil types. All of the regions depended heavily on Britain for manufactured goods. Most colonies enjoyed easy access to the Atlantic Ocean both along their coasts and via river systems navigable for miles inland. However, provinces like North Carolina, whose Outer Banks blocked the passage of larger ocean-going vessels, and New Jersey, which had no major river system, became dependent on their neighbors for transporting their products.

Family and social life for all Anglo-American colonists was colored by certain common conditions: a pre-industrial economy that put a premium on owning land, primitive knowledge of medicine by modern standards, and a social hierarchy shaped by the notion that God had ordained some to be rich and others poor. While these characteristics shaped life throughout the colonies, there were regional differences, especially between the two most ethnically English regions, the Chesapeake and New England.

In general, the colonies and the colonists shared the following:

- All colonies were some sort of business enterprise that was expected to produce a profit - either for corporate owners and stockholders, for the King, or for individual proprietors.
- All colonies were part of a global trade empire and, as such, were intimately bound to the world around them.
- The colonists believed themselves to be racially, culturally, and spiritually superior to the slaves and the Indians.
- The colonists believed property was the source of liberty - and to take it way meant the loss of their liberty.
- The colonists who had come from England, even if they left because they were unhappy with their lives, still for the most part cherished their English heritage. With the exception of Massachusetts and Connecticut, every colony was eventually named for something or someone English. Cities and towns were named after English counterparts, and many colleges and universities, such as William and Mary and King's College—which became Colombia University—were named as reminders of home.