How did people use the natural resources of their region to earn a liveing or have basic needs met in the 13 colonies

3 Main Ways, Production, Importation, and Exportation. The colonists would commonly grow Tobacco, Cotton, Sugar, Wheat, Potato's, Corn, and eat animals. They would export Tobacco, Cotton, and Sugar to earn money and stimulate the economy. They would eat mostly what they had there, but they would import tea and sugar.  They would also produce many textiles and woodwork things especially in the north, but many things were still imported from Europe.

slavery, abortion, donald trump, gay marriage, racial rights, immigration  

explanation:

anything that has been broth up to the supreme court is something of grate political divide   so just look as court cases