can someone please help me with information about the economy and major industries in the New England Colonies? i just need to know major industries and a little information about them. this would be a really big help. thanks ahead of time!|||Mostly agricultural, corn, wheat, and indigo (a dye).
Some ship building, and export of lumber too.
In early colonial days, trade with Native Americans was a big money maker too.
Furs were bought from Indians, the Indians wanted cloth, beads, and sometimes alcohol or store made pots and gun powder.
Much of the sea trade went to either other colonies or England.
Colonists in all the colonies turned corn into whiskey, and made rum from sorgum. Later more rum was imported from the West Indies.
While slavery was rare in New England colonies, many of the merchants made money on transport of slaves, or investing in them for resale, from Africa.
Trade was main money maker, both with imports and exports, often on ships built there.
They had good harbors, better than in the Southern colonies.
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