If I was a poor uneducated white twenty-five year old male from a farm family in england around 1730 and I was given the choice to settle in one of the following; the New England, the middle, or the southern colonies, I would choose the New England. I would choose this region mainly because eliminating the south as a place to settle is easy because of how difficult life was there compared to New England.
Environmentally, the climate of the New England Colonies were much more cold than middle and south colonies given it was the furthest north. The positive side to the cold climate was the prevention of spreading life-threatening diseases, versus the majority of people in the south died from the airborne diseases. The negative side to cold climates are severe winters which killed many people. Also, the geography of New England negatively affected farming because it was mostly hills with rocky soil making settlers have a short growing season. Settlers were able to have a sustainable lifestyle because they had enough food for themselves, but not as much in terms for trade. Another environmentally positive …show more content…
They brought animals such as pigs, sheep, horses, and cattle. This called for many more-larger grazing areas, resulting in a bigger loss of the forests’ shade, resulting in more extreme summer and winters. Because of these more-intense winters, the snow melt was eating away at the grazed lands, erosion and drought soon became a big problem. Agriculturally, the environment played a large role in the economy in the New England Colonies given that farming was not as important for making a living given the circumstances. The biggest difference between the New England colonies and the Southern Colonies were in the agriculture, New England colonist imported agricultural products whereas the Southern colonies exported agricultural
Environmentally, the climate of the New England Colonies were much more cold than middle and south colonies given it was the furthest north. The positive side to the cold climate was the prevention of spreading life-threatening diseases, versus the majority of people in the south died from the airborne diseases. The negative side to cold climates are severe winters which killed many people. Also, the geography of New England negatively affected farming because it was mostly hills with rocky soil making settlers have a short growing season. Settlers were able to have a sustainable lifestyle because they had enough food for themselves, but not as much in terms for trade. Another environmentally positive …show more content…
They brought animals such as pigs, sheep, horses, and cattle. This called for many more-larger grazing areas, resulting in a bigger loss of the forests’ shade, resulting in more extreme summer and winters. Because of these more-intense winters, the snow melt was eating away at the grazed lands, erosion and drought soon became a big problem. Agriculturally, the environment played a large role in the economy in the New England Colonies given that farming was not as important for making a living given the circumstances. The biggest difference between the New England colonies and the Southern Colonies were in the agriculture, New England colonist imported agricultural products whereas the Southern colonies exported agricultural