Northern Colonies Vs South Colonies

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The Northern and Southern colonies had different economies based on their experience in the New World and how they chose to do things in their colony. Each of the two had to go through multiple hardships and advantages to shape them into their much diverse ways of living which affected their sociality and lifestyle. The Southern colonies had lived a very set way of life only looking to make profit from tobacco and gain land for crops. After having a few indian disputes and many deaths from disease and starvation, the colonist found the tobacco plant and started farming it. The Southerners had spread out from each other to gain as much land as possible to farm this valuable product. As they began to export it more often the value of tobacco in England dropped …show more content…

Since these colonist came for other reasons than economic expansion, they lived a simple profit life, unlike the South. Most of their profit came from fur trade in their villages or towns and because of this, they didn’t ever need much profit, having all they needed close by them. They couldn’t make profit from tobacco like the South because their geography didn’t allow them to do so. The North had terrible soil and not nearly enough hands to handle a major cash crop like the Southern colonist did. Most of the Northern colonist came in families keeping the ratio of men to women more balanced and giving a household more opportunities to trade. A women of a family usually did trading for things the family needed at that time, giving women more rights and power than a Southern colony. The North also didn’t use servants in their colonies because they had no use for them and didn’t have the money to afford them anyways. To finish, the North relied on trade for their economy which kept the colony close together, and this also made for a more social colony as

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