Middle Colonies… The Breadbasket Colonies New York 1624 New Jersey 1664 Pennsylvania 1681 Delaware 1681 (1776)

What attracted people:  Religious freedom  Farming  A better life  Representative government  Equality

New Amsterdam – New York  Colony of New Netherland  founded by Dutch in 1624  Peter Stuyvesant - governor  Taken over by English Duke of York in 1664  Renamed New York  Proprietary colony

Peter Stuyvesant

Pennsylvania  William Penn – Quaker  Quakers persecuted in England  Believed all people should live together in peace and harmony

Pennsylvania  Penn given grant in 1681  Became one of the wealthiest colonies  Delaware became separate colony later  Called “Penn’s woods”  Philadelphia - “city of brotherly love”

Quaker Ideas  No tax $ for wars  Did not need church  Inner spark  All men created =  All religions and ethnic groups welcomed  Treated Native Americans fairly  Against slavery