The poor standing of Leopold the 2nd is most probably attributed to the role he had in the extermination of huge amounts of people in Belgian colonies at the time. This wasn't known at the time, but today we known that Leopold the 2nd had ordered a genocide over the Congonese people.
The colonists in New England specialized by using lumber for shipbuilding. The climate and land were not suitable for agriculture, but the forests provided large amounts of lumber. ... The New England colonies did not have very good farmland because of the rocky soil.
