The correct answer is D. Lumber production, fishing, whaling and fur trapping.
Explanation:
Farming was very hard at the time in the New England colonies, the soil was poor and unfertile, so farming was not a common acticity in general, on the other hand the colonist were very avid in fishing and whaling and mostly made their living out of these activities, the whale oil was a very important resource because it could be used in lamps, making this a very profitable activity, as i said before the land was not very suitable for farming, but it gave other resources like lumber that was also heavily exported to England due to a shortage of wood. in addition, hunting was also a very frecuent activity resulting in a good trade and market for furs, making fur traffic also a common and profitable activity.
William Howard Taft is considered a "Trustbuster" because he administered over 70 antitrust suits against companies. He used the rule of law to solve many societal problems.
Many former slaves still were unedumercated and needed to find jobs this lead to a legal form of work known as share cropping (tending to crops for a portion of the crop or a low wage pay)
Through this treaty, Russia lost control over Finland and Poland, as well as other territories in eastern Europe. It also gave up its claim to the Ukraine, a region of the Russian Empire that was home to rich farmland and natural resources
