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Tell Me 3 Important facts about shipbuliding in the New England Colonies.

2006-11-15 08:56:20 · 2 answers · asked by William V 2 in Education & Reference Homework Help

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They were meant to trade, transport goods, and bring people over from the other places of the world.

2006-11-15 09:05:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

2 Towns grew up along the coast, where ships could bring more settlers, deliver supplies, and load up with export goods. In each town, craftsmen worked at their trades, providing necessities for the colonists and goods for export. Many of them worked in the shipbuilding industry, providing planks for building ships, spars to hold the ships' sails, and pitch for making the ships waterproof. Other New Englanders fished for a living, reeling in not only oysters, lobsters, crabs, and fish to eat, but money from the export of seafood as well.

2006-11-15 09:26:06 · answer #2 · answered by Martha P 7 · 0 0

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