Explanation:
Like all of the English colonies in North America, Carolina's economy was largely constricted by mercantile laws that prohibited the manufacture of finished goods in the colonies and promoted the export of raw materials to England to feed the Colonial power's growing industrialization. Combined with the conditions of settlement of the southern colonies by agricultural interests, the Carolinas quickly became a plantation economy. Both South and North Carolina economic activities became highly specialized in the production of agricultural products as natural resources.
