Chapter2 Section4 Settlement of the middle colonies

What have we learned?  How does this have any relevance today?  What have we learned about the puritans  Worship as you wish-as long as you worship the same way we do!  If you do not- we will punish and humiliate you!

Henry Hudson Employed by England Founds New Netherlands 1621 Capital New Amsterdam 1625 Present day N.Y.C.

What! No Gold?  Dutch will profit from fur trade  Colony slow to attract Dutch settlers  Slowly it becomes a melting pot  Germans  French  Scandinavians  1660’s-20% pop. Was africans

Who are these guys?  Dutch- friendly relations w/ Iroquois  Smart!- Iroquois were powerful/well organized  Dutch were much more interested in fur trade vs. conquering  Some fighting did occur-over trade routes and land claims

The Dutch wedge  English feel that Dutch stood in way of uniting no./so. Colonies  English fleet arrives  Dutch are wimps!  Not a shot is fired!

New York  England appoints a duke of York  Proprietor of colony  Proprietor= owner  Gives some land to his friends  Modern day New Jersey

The Holy Experiment  William Penn  PENNsylvania- get it?  Quakers  Dressed plainly  Informal services  Pacifists  Would not defer to those of rank  Harassed by all

Holy Experiment,cont.  No rich land owners  Settle-you get 50 ac. And a right to vote  Philadelphia-capital-city of brotherly love  Natives=friends  Native/settler court to insure fair treatment  Natives respected him!

Challenges Wm. Penn faced  Had to attract settlers  Many different europeans arrive  Slaves-even owned by Quakers  Colony was successful,but Penn never profited  He dies in 1718  Vision fades,but does not disappear  His ideas of equality would form American values

The first 13 Colonies  Eventually, the 13 colonies would form  Maryland-famed for religious freedom  N/S Carolinas follow  Georgia-no slaves/no rum!  All of this would change when king takes control in 1752