Founding the Middle Colonies

1. Founding the Middle Colonies

2. In section, you will read about the founding of the Middle Colonies (such as New York), and the Southern Colonies.

3. New Jersey New York The Middle Colonies Delaware Pennsylvania

4. The Dutch West India Company, founded the colony of New Netherland in what is now New York.

6. States which were part of New Netherlands

7. A map of the Hudson river valley c. 1635 (North is to the right)

8. New Amsterdam in 1664

9. New Amsterdam c. 1674

10. The Dutch colony of New Netherland attacked the nearby colony of New Sweden in 1655, but was itself attacked by the Duke of York’s troops and renamed New York.

11. James II, Duke of York.

13. The Duke of York, gave the province of New Jersey to his friends, Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley in 1664. Settlers in New Jersey were promised large land grants and religious freedom.

14. The original provinces of West and East New Jersey are shown in yellow and green respectively. The Keith line is shown in red, and the Coxe and Barclay line is shown in orange. The wedge at the top is the territory at the disputed New Jersey / New Yorkborder

15. William Penn, a Quaker, was given a large piece of land in America by Charles II in order to repay a debt. This piece of land came to be called Pennsylvania, and was a place where Quakers and non-Quakers alike could live according to their beliefs.

16. William Penn

17. Benjamin West's painting (in 1771) of William Penn's 1682 treaty with the Lenape

19. Having been granted their own assembly in 1704 by Penn, Delaware eventually separated from Pennsylvania.

20. The area now known as "Delaware" had no official name before 1776; it was administered by the proprietors of Pennsylvania as part of their jurisdiction, even though it had a separate local assembly and courts.

21. FOR UNDERSTANDING QUICK CHECK

22. 1) West Indian Company, New Jersey 2) Pennsylvania Dutch, New Netherland 3) Dutch West India Company, New Netherland 4) Dutch East India Company, New York The______, founded the colony of ______ in what is now New York.

23. 1) New York 2) New Jersey 3) Baltimore 4) Delaware The Dutch colony of New Netherland was renamed ______.

24. 1) Delaware 2) New Jersey 3) Baltimore 4) Newark The Duke of York, gave the province of ______ to his friends, Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley in 1664.

25. 1) Lord Baltimore, Charleston 2) William Penn, Pennsylvania 3) Lord Baltimore, Baltimore 4) The Duke of York, New York ______ was given a large piece of land in America by Charles II. This piece of land came to be called ______.

26. 1) Puritan 2) Presbyterian 3) Quaker 4) Baptist William Penn was a ______ by religion.

27. 1) Baltimore 2) New York 3) the Carolinas 4) Delaware Having been granted their own assembly in 1704, ______ eventually separated from Pennsylvania.