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explain - cause it is lol
The family was important because land was given to people according to how big and how famous the family was. The more powerful and bigger the family the more they had. That's why they always stuck together and had close knit families because it meant their prospering.
One could argue that one similarity that Britain and the West Indies had with the New England colonies was that they all shared in the same "triangle trade", which brought large amounts of slaves to the Caribbean and large amounts of sugar and other products to Britain.
