The development that probably hurt it is the reduction of open range herding. In history, people could just let their cattle roam freely and find food since the plains were huge and nobody lived in them. Nowadays, this can be problematic because there are more and more people and settlements and roads with cars so free range herding has been drastically reduced which cost the herders a lot.
They wewre called the serfs/pesants.
Well, there were multiple.. the colonies located in New England include the following..
- New Hampshire
- Massachusetts
- Rhode Island
- Connecticut
I hope this helps you
The answer to your question is coastal areas. D