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•New Jersey
•Pennsylvania
•Delaware
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| Groups that settled in the Middle Colonies |
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•Swedes
•Dutch
•English
•Germans
•Africans
Swedes built the first log cabin in America in Delaware. It was the perfect house to build where there were many trees:
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| Characteristic of the Middle Colonies that attracted people of many religions |
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religious freedom
A Peaceable Kingdom by Edward Hicks, a Quaker:[image] |
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| Characteristics of the Middle Colonies |
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The Hudson & Delaware Rivers supported shipping and commerce.
The river valleys had rich soil and mild winters. These conditions were favorable for farming and raising livestock.
The Delaware River:[image] |
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1624 Dutch merchants founded the colony of New Netherlands which included the Hudson River valley, Long Island, and the land along the Delaware River.
New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island was the largest town:[image] |
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| How did New Netherland become New York? |
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•New Netherland was a threat to England because of its trade, its location, and its expanding settlements. (There were English colonies to the north and Virginia to the south.)
•England’s King Charles II decided that his brother, Duke of York, should drive the Dutch out of New Netherland. The duke’s ships appeared off New Amsterdam in 1664 and the colony surrendered.
•The name of the colony was changed to New York.
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a colony with a single owner
New York was a proprietary colony owned by the Duke of York.[image] |
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| The founding of New Jersey |
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The Duke of York gave the southern part of his colony to two of his friends. They named their colony New Jersey.
The two men offered large land grants to settlers. They offered religious freedom and trial by jury. Colonists could meet and decide their own laws and taxes.
Sir George Carteret, founding the colony of New Jersey in 1664:
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| The King of England owed the Penn family money and repaid the debt by giving them a large piece of land in America that came to be called Pennsylvania which means "Penn's woods."
William was a Quaker and wanted to start a colony as a safe place for Quakers to live.
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Quakers believed that all people should have equal rights. They did not believe that kings should rule. They did not believe in war. They welcomed all people, including Native Americans, and all religions. They were sometimes persecuted for their beliefs.
Quakers being led to execution in Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1600s:[image] |
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| Penn drew up plans for a city of broad streets. He built good houses of equal size for all colonists.
He wrote a constitution, or plan of government. He allowed the settlers to elect leaders. He invited people from all over Europe to move to his colony.
The Quakers treated the Indians fairly. They bought the land for their colony from the Indians and lived in peace with them.
Penn named the capital city Philadelphia which means "city of brotherly love."[image] |
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| How was Delaware founded? |
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| The southern part of Penn's colony was a small strip of land along the Atlantic Ocean. Colonists from Sweden settled there. In 1704, Penn granted them their own assembly. That area later broke away to form the colony of Delaware.
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PRACTICE TAKS QUESTION:
The 13 original colonies were primarily located along the ____________.
A. Atlantic Ocean
B. Gulf of Mexico
C. Mississippi River
D. Great Lakes |
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