Between 1607 and 1733 England established 13 colonies on the eastern coastline of North America. Settlers came to establish new lives for either religious or economic reasons. The lifestyle and economies of those settlers varied in the three colonial regions based on the climate and geography around them. In the New England colonies, it was hard to make profit from farming so the settlers traded to earn profit. Settlers in the Middle colonies relied trade, manufacturing, and farming for profit. In the Southern colonies, settlers mainly relied on farming for money. In New England, the climate and geography made farming unprofitable, instead settlers fished and traded for profit. The soil there were rocky and poor. They also had a short growing
