DEVELOPMENT OF THE MIDDLE COLONIES

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DEVELOPMENT OF THE MIDDLE COLONIES
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FOUNDINGPeople, Reasons, Colonies

• DUTCH claimed colony of New Netherland main
  settlement New Amsterdam on Manhattan Is. in
  1664, Peter Stuyvesant surrendered the colony to
  the English
• Patroon wealthy landowners who brought 50
  workers to settle

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FOUNDINGPeople, Reasons, Colonies (continued)

• DUKE OF YORK brother of King Charles II owner
  of New York colony NYC became a large diverse
  city
• LORD JOHN BERKELEY SIR GEORGE CARTERET
  friends of Duke of York proprietors of the New
  Jersey colony became a place of ethnic
  religious diversity

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FOUNDINGPeople, Reasons, Colonies (continued)

• WILLIAM PENN QUAKERS in 1682 Penn received a
  large land grant wanted to make a safe place for
  Quakers in America designed Philadelphia helped
  settle colony, which became very diverse due to
  tolerance had own assembly

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FOUNDINGPeople, Reasons, Colonies (continued)

• DELAWARE in 1703, three lower counties
  separated from PA, formed their own legislature,
  and became the colony of Delaware

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GOVERNMENTDOCUMENTS, IDEAS, FIRSTS

• PROPRIETARY COLONY colony in which the owner
  (proprietor) owns all the land controls the
  government (DE, MD, PA)
• PROMISES TO COLONISTS cheap land freedom of
  religion trial by jury representative assembly

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SOCIETYFamily, Community, Religion

• QUAKER IDEALS believed everyone had an inner
  light that guided them to salvation everyone is
  equal tolerant of others pacifists
• CULTURAL DIVERSITY a variety of different
  cultures Middle Colonies were most diverse of
  all because of tolerant ideals

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ECONOMICSFarming Other Ways To Make A Living

• CASH CROP FARMING growing food for a profit
• MAJOR CROPS wheat, oats, corn
• LARGEST CITIES IN COLONIES Philadelphia New
  York City (b/c of trade)
• OTHER IMPORTANT INDUSTRIES lumber, mining,
  trading, fishing, manufacturing
• NICKNAME Breadbasket colonies