What was paramount to survival of colonial Americans?
Livestock
Land
Water
Families

Im pretty sure its livestock

Explanation:

Families

Explanation:

In colonial life, all the people in a family had a specific job that they had to follow to survive. The men had to work and bring home the greatest income for their families. Women had to take care of the children and around the house. Finally, the children were responsible of taking care of the farm and the house. Without one member of the family, the family had low chances of surviving in the colonial times.

Also you can look at the question by grouping together the obvious. Livestock, Land, and Water are all part of the environment that we depend upon. While, Families is the outlier, and therefore the correct answer.

(I had this question on a quiz, and I got the answer correct.)

by creating a labor shortage that pushed the continent toward a market economy