What accounts for the differences between the northern and southern colonies?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
a. The colder climate in New England spared the northern colonies many of the infectious diseases that afflicted the southern colonies.
b. As a result, people in the northern colonies lived longer than people in the southern colonies did.
c. Subsistence farming characterized agriculture in the northern colonies, resulting in small family farms.
d. Commercial farming was the norm in the southern colonies, resulting in large farms worked on by indentured or slave labor.
e. Family life was more unstable in the southern colonies due to high mortality rates and the practice of slavery.
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