In 2-3 sentences, compare the Northern, middle and southern (+chespeake) colonies economically.

British colonies in the south, ranging from the Chesapeake to the West Indies, focused on the production of cash crops like tobacco and sugar. The focus on plantation agriculture led to large populations of enslaved Africans in these colonies as well as social stratification between wealthy white plantation owners and poor white and black laborers.

state law

most seat belt laws in the united states are left to the states. however, the first seat belt law was a federal law.