2.5 – The Middle Colonies
New England Middle Colonies English Chesapeake
Middle Colonies Colonized by: the Netherlands (the Dutch) and Sweden (the Swedes)
New Netherland
Middle Colonies Colonized by: the Netherlands (the Dutch) and Sweden (the Swedes)
Peter Stuyvesant New Sweden
New England 33,000 Middle Colonies 5,000 English Chesapeake 25,000
William Penn
Philadelphia 1700 – 18,000 Quakers! Anglicans! German Baptists! Lutherans! Philadelphia city of brotherly love 1680 – 2,000 1700 – 18,000
Diversity in the Middle Colonies ethnic diversity – Dutch, Swedes, Finns, French Protestants, Germans, Norwegians, Scots, English religious diversity – Quakers, Baptists, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Dutch and German Reformed, Jews **learned toleration** against the traditional belief that uniformity = political order **foundation for American future diversity and tolerance**