Chapter 3 Sec. 3 The Colonies Grow

I. England and the Colonies. In 1660 England had two groups of colonies: 1.The New England colonies run by private corporations under a royal charter. They were Mass., New Hampshire, Conn., and Rhode Island. 2.The royal colonies run by England. They were Maryland and Virginia.

New England Colonies

Royal Colonies

England wanted to gain control of the Dutch- controlled land in between these two groups of colonies because of its harbor and river trade. The Dutch colony was New Netherland. Its main settlement of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island was a center of shipping to and from the Americas. The Dutch West India Company gave new settlers who brought at least 50 settlers with them a large estate. These landowners ruled like kings. They were called patroons.

In 1644 the English sent a fleet to attack New Amsterdam. The governor of New Amsterdam, Peter Stuyvesant, was unprepared for a battle, so he surrendered the colony. The Duke of York gained control of the colony and named it New York. He promised the colonists freedom of religion and allowed the to hold on to their land. The population of New York grew to about 8,000 in New Amsterdam, now called New York City, became one of the fastest-growing locations in the colony.

The Southern part if New York between the Hudson and the Delaware Rivers became New Jersey. Its inhabitants were diverse in ethnicity and religion, like those from New York. Without a major port city, however, it did not make the money the landowners expected. By 1702 New Jersey became a royal colony, yet it continued to make local laws.

II. Pennsylvania William Penn received a large tract of land in America from the king as a repayment of a debt. The colony was Pennsylvania. Penn, a Quaker, saw Pennsylvania as a chance to put Quaker ideas of tolerance and equality into practice. He designed the city of Philadelphia and wrote the first constitution.

Pennsylvania

To encourage settlers to Pennsylvania, he advertised the colony throughout Europe in several languages. By 1683 more than 3,000 English, Welsh, Irish, Dutch, and German people settled there. In 1701 Penn granted the colonists the right to elect representatives to a legislative assembly. In 1703 Three Lower Counties formed their own legislature and became the colony of Delaware. The counties functioned as a separate colony known as Delaware and were supervised by Pennsylvania’s governor.