We discussed the passage of slave codes and how each section of the country used different things to build their economies. While there was farming in the north, the economy began to change to that of commerce and trade. The Chesapeake region relied on growing tobacco, GA and S. Carolina relied on growing rice and indigo and colonies in the deep south relied on cotton. We discussed the great influx of Sottish and Irish immigrants in the early 1700s. We are going to see that the diversity of the northern colonies' economy vs. the south's reliance on some staple crops will have far reaching affects on the growth of the colonies and eventually, the United States of America.