1. The Middle Colonies

2. The Middle Colonies

3. The Middle Colonies Also known as the “Bread Colonies”
Milder winters than the New England colonies and an average growing season, great for growing grain.
Full of many wide, easily navigable rivers

4. Squatters. . .
The British planned on settling the Middle Colonies, but the Dutch were already there.
The colony of New Amsterdam was led by Peter Stuyvesant and it was competing economically with the New England colonies.

5. The British make a move. . .
The British surrounded the colony, offering citizenship to the people if they gave up.
Finding that his people had no will to fight, Stuyvesant surrendered the colony.

6. New Amsterdam New York!
After the Dutch surrendered in 1664, New York was born.
Like most of the Middle Colonies, New York was a proprietary colony

7. Proprietary colony Here, you do it!
A Proprietary colony is when the power the government holds over the colony is given to a private landholder

8. The Quakers and Pennsylvania
The Quakers were a breakaway group of Puritans
They believed in individual relationships with God, and did not have priests.

9. William Penn
Eager to get rid of the Quakers, the king loved The idea of William Penn for a mass immigration to America

10. Pennsylvania! William Penn is given a land grant for Pennsylvania
Penn drafted a Frame of Government that guaranteed freedom of religion, free elactions, jury trials and more

11. A Utopia!

12. Quick Assignment
Using your notes on the New England Colonies and the Middle Colonies, draw a Venn Diagram and compare and contrast the two colonial regions
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