Question

The different environments of colonial North America contributed to a wide variety of
A.
religious conversions.
B.
self-government.
C.
settlement patterns.
D.
educational institutions.

Answer 1

C. settlement patterns.

Different climates, soils, and geography (New England's rocky soil and coastal bays, the Chesapeake tidewater, the fertile Middle Colonies, and the Southern plantation regions) produced very different kinds of settlements — towns and villages in New England, scattered plantations in the South, mixed farms and port cities in the Middle Colonies, and frontier outposts inland.