Question

By the eighteenth century, the various colonial regions had distinct economic identities; the northern colonies relied on __________, the Chesapeake colonies relied on __________, and the southern colonies relied on __________. A) cattle and grain, tobacco, rice and indigo B) furs and skins, tobacco, iron works C) rice and indigo, lumber and timber, tobacco D) shipbuilding, iron works, cattle and grain E) cattle and grain, tobacco, fishing

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Answers respectively:

D: northern is not large agricultural and they also had a major shipbuilding economy (bonus points for that it was jump started by the navigation acts)

My best guess is E: lumber is usually associated with the north so that eliminates C, rice and indigo is associated with the south. The Chesapeake colonies are majorly associated with tobacco and one commodity in the other options don’t make sense

A: rice and indigo along with tobacco are staple cash crops of the south.

Hope this helps!