By: Cierra Simmons Chester Amaral Kyle Chapman Cameron Cabral Josh Hatfield

1. The Middle Colonies By: Cierra Simmons Chester Amaral Kyle Chapman Cameron Cabral Josh Hatfield

2. The Politics • Mainly ran by Royal or Proprietary Governors and elected Colonial Assemblies • Constitutions granted religious freedom and forbid taxing without representation • Royal governors were thrown in jail • Continental Congress

3. The Economics • Part agriculture and part industrial • Wheat and other grains  • Live stock • Iron • Furs • Paper and textiles • Trade with England

4. The Religions • Quakers • High religious tolerance • English Catholics • Scottish Irish Presbyterians • German Lutherans and sectarians • Dutch Reformed • Anglicans

5. The Industry • Lumbering • Shipbuilding industries  • Deep river estuaries • Important ports • Sawmills • Gristmills • Textile • Iron • Pennsylvania Long Rifle • Conestoga Wagon • Paper making

6. Literarily Accomplishments • College of Philadelphia • Latin grammar • Rhetoric • Advanced arithmetic • Accounting • Navigation • Surveying • Modern languages

7. Social Factors • A mixture of immigrant groups • New York • Pennsylvania • New Jersey • Delaware • Farming • Trade • By the 1700s more than 50,000 people lived in the Middle Colonies. • Men built houses and barns made out of brick, mud and wood. • Woman milked the cows and made butter and cheese. • Boys worked with their father on the field or they worked for shoe makers. • Boys built roads and dug ditches. • Girls learned how to tend to the garden. • Girls helped bake meals and clean the house. • Girls watched their younger bothers and sisters. • Children collected eggs from the chickens. • They raised animals on their farm like cows, sheep, goats, and pigs. • They used the animal skins for their clothes and harnesses for horses. • They ate animals, fish, corn, beans, squash, eggs, butter, bread, dried beef, slated pork, nuts, berries, fruits, and veggies. • They drank milk, beer, and water. • When they had more food than they needed they sold it at the market. • Families used fireplaces to cook their food and heat the house. • Families lived in log cabins.

8. Church