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All right A pushers next to questions or about this

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little paragraph here We'll just skim it this year having

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planet our fields get him going on a cruise in

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a storm of hail incident melatonin corn to backup reap

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Small probably magazine came to George being five hundred pound

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a bit of a bad condition But air she rock

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gathered a number two back over but she shillings a

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pound around that eighteen pence And the question which of

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the following is most directly reflected in the above excerpt

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Well let's think about it By the time John Smith

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wrote the excerpt above the Colonies were finally beginning to

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develop distinct regional identities lurking behind the excerpt Extreme His

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vowels and strange capitalization is a description of growing and

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selling tobacco e which was a process specific Two middle

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colonies like Virginia right like that the weather in the

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water and the good soil and all that kind of

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stuff So it's c the cultivation of labor intensive crops

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in the middle colonies right and the loser bolt In

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those days most the colonies could be identified by their

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climates and economies A thriving export economy existed in the

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middle colonies not in the West That New England was

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too cold to grow Tobacco successfully and with long hot

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growing seasons of the British Virgin Islands were more ideally

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suited for sugar than for tobacco So that would be

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the right answer here Yeah it's C cultivation of labor

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intensive crops and me a cigarette

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