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I believe the answer is city-state structure.
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The great reform act enabled many parts of the land to prosper and the problem of rotten boroughs to cease to exist by redistributing the seats of parliament according to the needs of the land. What this means is that places that were "rotten" were now better represented and people could fight for their development in the parliament.
Rice was grown along the banks of the Yangtze River
The North was occupied by the people of western England and mirrored their philosophy of hard word. The middle colonies were established by the people of Ireland and reflected their Celtic attitude of do enough to get the job done. The Deep South was settled by Prisoners in Georgia and political prisoners in Carolina (there was no north and south yet. These people were trying to establish a way of life that was distanced from that of Europe.