<span>unwilling to resolve issues through diplomacy</span>
Well they became farmers because there weren't enough crops.
He referring to mr frank on the going up the stairs to much make peter feel sorry for him
The economic development of the mid-atlantic, new england, and southern colonies differed mainly because of climate (the north colonies were much more cold than the southern, which limited the amount and the types of plants they can grow), soil (northern soil was not as fertile as southern), resources found (there were greater amounts of fishes in the north then south, and so the Northern colonists built up a "fish economy" instead of farming.)
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A lot of reasons while others were struggling with monarchy and oligarchy etc. they didn't want to and they did prefer independence.