The most profitable enterprise in the colonial New England economy
a. Was the commercial farming of cash crops
b. Was the mass manufacture of textiles
c. Was maritime commerce
d. Was the production of food crops for sale across colonial America
e. Was the local production of subsistence farmers
Ans: c. Was maritime commerce
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