What proved to be a major hardship for settlement in the New England colonies? Trading with neighboring colonies. Exporting raw materials to England. Creating the shipbuilding industry. Developing agriculture during hot summers.

Thomas jefferson was important in the revolutionary era because a) he wrote much of the declaration of independence. b) he was elected the president of the continental congress. c) his philosophies were used in the influential pamphlet common sense. reactivate d) his leadership and moral stand lead to the colonies to fight for the abolition of slavery.