Many people in New England were self-sufficient.

What does that mean?

The English settlers were self-sufficient farmers because they only produced what they needed in the New England colonies. ... Colonists in the New England colonies built things with natural resources, but fished and had self-sufficient farmers because there was bad soil and a cold climate.

Explanation:

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your answer would be (b)

less available tax revenue

this basically means that when they get money from taxes wirth having a lower gdp they get less then what others have with a higher gdp