What's the difference in the economic development of the mid-atlantic, new england, and southern colonies can best be attributed to the?

What's the difference in the economic development of the mid-Atlantic, new england, and southern colonies can best be attributed to the?

The geographic conditions there. 

It changed what products could be exported, the raw materials, as well as the natural resources that they could use for themselves and use for trade. 

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The fact that farmers were paid for destroying crops.