New England's geographic features most directly
influenced the region's development of

The rivers, streams, and ocean allowed for the development of a strong trade system, fishing industry, along with shipbuilding. There were also some farms farther from the coast run by families but nothing like the plantations down south.

du boi was considered a radical because he wanted the immediate end for segregation. the biggest different between him and booker t. washington is that, even though washington believed that segregation should be considered illegal, he did not believe at all that a law was needed to keep blacks away from whites and that this would be something natural (to have the races apart) for a long time until society adjusted, while du boi believe that agitation was the only way to end segregation.