New Englanders built more private and comfortable houses at an earlier stage than colonists in the Chesapeake because of the

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The need of southerners to invest available capital in labor, rather than in building private and comfortable houses, is a key reason why New Englanders were able to develop more private and comfortable houses at an earlier stage. In the Chesapeake and other southern colonies, the economic focus was on establishing and maintaining labor-intensive cash crop plantations, which required significant investment in enslaved labor. This left less capital available for investing in personal dwellings compared to New England, where the economy was more diversified and less reliant on labor-intensive agriculture.

New Englanders Built More Private and Comfortable Houses at an Earlier