The people had to use subsistence farming becasue the farmland wasn't very good. So most farmers grew enough food for them and their families. Since England passed the Navigation Acts, the people of the Northern Colonies had to start smuggling and those people were known as pirates. The most famous pirate was Blackbeard. King Philip who was part of the Wampanoag tribe started the King Philip's War. After having twelve Puritan towns destroyed, the English colonists turned to Native Americans for help. The uprising finally collapsed in the summer of 1676.
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Blackbeard was one of the most known pirates for smuggling for the Northern Colonies.