Topic: Rating the Diversity of the Middle Colonies.
Dutch find New Amsterdam 1600: Dutch become major economic and naval power Explorers in the New World Owned by Dutch West India Company: Patroonships Port towns Several ethnicities No freedom or religious toleration “Aristocratic” features Peter Stuyvesant
“New York” Dutch fighting Swedes, New England, Indians 1662: British seize NY East coast under British rule Dutch landowners remained strong under British rule Dutch cultural contributions
Pennsylvania: Penn’s Woodland Quaker “dissent” William Penn A haven for Quakers and others “best advertised” Numerous ethnic groups “Liberalism” Native Policy Quakers spread into New Jersey, Delaware also
Conclusion 1) Why were the Middle Colonies so ethnically diverse? 2) Some state that the Middle Colonies set “the pattern” for US development. Do you agree? Explain