Answer:
The reasons vary.
Explanation:
NE - Very cold winters, mild summer
-shortest growing season
-had to focus on shipbuilding, fishing, and oversea trade
MD - cold winters, moderate summers
-longer growing season
-fertile soil
-agriculture
ST - Mild winters, hot summers,
-longest growing season
-Discovered that they could grow tabacco
-Plantations were very profitable because they grew tobacco, indigo, rice, & cotton on a large scale
