KEY FACTORS

• – New England’s growth lagged behind that of other colonies.
• – Governments in New England stopped granting land to towns.
• – New England colonists had only one-fourth as much wealth per capita as free colonists in the South.
• – Fish accounted for more than a third of New England’s exports.
• – The richest 5 percent of Bostonians owned about half the city’s wealth.
• – The poorest two-thirds of Bostonians owned less than 10 percent of the city’s wealth.
• – New England’s population was 97 percent white.