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2 lut 2021 · The New England Colonies were the settlements established by English religious dissenters along the coast of the north-east of North America between 1620-1640 CE. The original colonies were: Plymouth Colony (1620 CE) New Hampshire Colony (1622 CE) Massachusetts Bay Colony (1630 CE) Providence Colony (1636 CE) Connecticut Colony (1636 CE)
23 mar 2015 · New data now allow conjectures on the levels of real and nominal incomes in the 13 American colonies. New England was the poorest region, and the South was the richest. Colonial per capita incomes ...
But once in North America, after an initial period of economic dislocation—predictable, perhaps, when a group of primarily urban residents migrate to a place that they considered a “wilderness”—many colonists in New England set about to improve their economic standing.
28 mar 2008 · From 1611 to 1618 the colony was ruled with iron discipline, with a detailed plan for all economic operations. All land was to be owned by the company and farmed collectively. The workers, all men, were to be treated as bound servants of the company for their specified terms.
The New England and the Middle colonies largely supplied their labor needs through a combination of family immigration, natural increase, and the importation of bound European workers known as indentured servants.
They did not repay their investors, nor did they establish any of the north European countries as a significant colonial power. By the turn of the century, therefore, a new generation of adventurers – first in England and then more gradually on the continent – began to consider a change in strategy.
New data now allow conjectures on the levels of real and nominal incomes in the thirteen American colonies. New England was the poorest region, and the South was the richest.
