List three ways in which the new state governments remained quite similar to the way they were governed as colonies. List three ways in which the new state governments changed, often altering old power balances.

The new state governments were similar because they also had an executive power and had a two-house legislature. But they were different because during the colonial times the states were self-governing, there was no central government and had no US Constitution to guide them. They had the state's constitution that was free to determine their laws.

1. The main source of employment was agriculture.

Before and after the colonies, for the people in the States working in the fields was still the principal way of making a living.

2. People didn´t have a main role in politics.

Other think that didn´t change was the fact that the common people wasn´t involved in the desicion making process towards building the coutry.

3. People were still taxed by the government.

One of the things that the farmers fuoght for was the fact that they were being heavily taxed by the British empire, after the independance, to form a new country they needed money, and the only way a country can make money it´s taxing its people.