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How does geography affect the economy of a region?

How does geography affect the economy of a region?. Bellringer for 9/27/2007. New England’s Economy. Small farms Corn, livestock Fishing and whaling NE of New Eng lay Grand Banks Coastline had harbors and timber Demand for fish as food Lumbering and Shipbuilding Lumber Barrels Ships

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How does geography affect the economy of a region?

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  1. How does geography affect the economy of a region? Bellringer for 9/27/2007

  2. New England’s Economy • Small farms • Corn, livestock • Fishing and whaling • NE of New Eng lay Grand Banks • Coastline had harbors and timber • Demand for fish as food • Lumbering and Shipbuilding • Lumber • Barrels • Ships • Cheaper in America than England

  3. New England Society • Towns formed by groups of proprietors • Town meetings • Residents met to discuss local problems and issues • Free men elected leaders, deputies to General Court • Pass laws for town, elect officials • Selectmen-managed town’s affairs • Appointed other officails needed • Allowed people to participate in government

  4. Purtian Society • Lived close to the meetinghouse (church) • “Holy Watching” • Practice of watching over neighbors behavior or moral welfare

  5. Triangular Trade • New England-Caribbean-England • Fish,meat,lumber-sugar-manufactured goods • Americas-Europe-Africa • Rum-manufactured goods-enslaved people-sugar • Merchants became wealthy

  6. New Urban Society • Social classes in cities • Small group of wealthy merchants • Artisans and business owners • People without skills or property • Indentured servants and enslaved Africans

  7. Society in the Middle Colonies • Rich farmland • Cash crop • wheat • Hudson, Delaware, Susquehanna Rivers • Moved goods from farms to cities • NYC and Philadelphia

  8. Wheat Boom • Increase in population in Europe • Demand for wheat • Prices increased • Increase in immigrants • Some farmers hired immigrants or rented land • Became wealthy • Developed classes • Wealthy entrepreneurs (lg farms, businesses) • Small farmers • Landless workers

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