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The Middle Colonies

The Middle Colonies. Chapter 3, Lesson 3 EQ: How does geography influence the way people live?. Middle Colonies. 1. 3. 2. 4. New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware. Appalachian Mountains. The “Breadbasket” Colonies.

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The Middle Colonies

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  1. The Middle Colonies Chapter 3, Lesson 3 EQ: How does geography influence the way people live?

  2. Middle Colonies 1 3 2 4 • New York • New Jersey • Pennsylvania • Delaware Appalachian Mountains

  3. The “Breadbasket” Colonies The Middle Colonies were located between the New England Colonies and the Southern Colonies.

  4. Activity

  5. The English created New York and New Jersey from a former Dutch territory The area was first controlled by the Dutch and called New Netherland. The most important settlement was New Amsterdam, a seaport at the mouth of the Hudson River. The Dutch West India Company settled New Netherland by granting land to people who could bring at least 50 settlers to work the land. Patroons:were the land owners who received these land grants. Had their own courts and laws. Settlers owed the patroons labor & share of their crops. NEW YORK (1664)

  6. New Amsterdam in 1664

  7. New Netherlands Becomes NEW YORK • The English wanted New Netherland because they claimed they had explored the land first, they sent a fleet to capture it. • Peter Stuyvesant (Dutch governor) was forced to surrender to the English.

  8. The Duke of York • King Charles II (king of England) gave New Netherland to his brother the Duke of York. • New Netherland renamed New York. • N.Y. was a proprietary colony, a colony in which an owner, or proprietor, owned all the land and controlled the government. • The colony thrived under English control.

  9. The Duke of York (owner of New York) divided his colony. He gave this land to Lord John Berkeley & Sir Carteret, they named the colony New Jersey. To attract settlers, proprietors offered: Large tracts of land, religious freedom, trial by jury, and a representative assembly. NEW JERSEY(1702)

  10. Pennsylvania (1681) • Society of Friends, or Quakers, was one of largest Protestant groups in England. • Quakers were pacifists—people who refused to fight in wars.

  11. William Penn established the colony of Pennsylvania • William Penn founded Pennsylvania, a larger colony for Quakers that provided a safe home. • Pennsylvania was founded to escape religious persecution in England. • Pennsylvania had religious freedom and toleration. • Philadelphia (“brotherly love”) is the main town.

  12. Penn’s“Holy Experiment” • Quakers believed everyone was equal. • William Penn promised fair treatment of Native Americans. • Believed that Native Americans owned the land and settlers should pay for it. • He negotiates several treaties with Native Americans. • However, as non-Quaker immigrants came, they were less tolerant of Indians (Scots-Irish).

  13. Delaware was formed from the southern part of Pennsylvania. People from Sweden and the Netherlands settled there and then the English took over. William Penn let these colonists have their own government. Eventually this settlement became Delaware. Like Pennsylvania, Delaware had religious toleration. Delaware (1682)

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