1. Culture and Religion of the Middle Colonies
By: Catarina Kim, Nick Kim, and Jahnavi Kirtane

2. Ways of Life In The Middle Colonies
The middle colonies had the most diversity out of the other colonies, so they had many different cultures and religions.
Most people were farmers, because the climate and soil was very good for farming.
Merchants sold things that the farmers grew.
They had a free market economy (the government doesn’t control how much you trade and how much you charge).
Philadelphia and New York were busy ports and trade centers.
There were a lot of artisans and laborers that stayed near the ports and centers.

3. Ways of life continued...
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4. Education
The education in the middle colonies was different from the other colonies.
Sponsored by different religions.
William Penn and Benjamin Franklin wanted Pennsylvania to have education.
Pennsylvania was the most involved in Education.
Boys learned either a skill or trade.
Girls were tutored at home (they learned about social and household things.
Social class was important.
You could also learn classical languages, history and literature, math, and science.

5. Populations and Major Cities
Populations in 1770:
Pennsylvania: 240,057
New York: 162,920
New Jersey: 143,117
Delaware: 35,496
Major cities are…
Germantown
New York City
Philadelphia
Albany
Interesting Facts:
The Middle Colonies had the most diverse group of people living in it.
Pennsylvania had the larger population than New York back then, and they still do.

6. Toleration in Middle colonies
During the 17th century, when William Penn, a Quaker, gave full religious freedom in Pennsylvania, other religions like Calvinists, Jews, Moravians, Lutherans and Catholics followed religious tolerance of the Quakers in Pennsylvania. Even they had a religious freedom, they didn’t have a freedom in all parts of it, like in government; only Catholics could vote.

7. Religion
The Middle Colonies were the most ethnically and religiously diverse of the thirteen original colonies because of the influence of their Polish, English, Dutch, French and German origins.
In the middle colonies they had religious freedom, so their religion were all mixed.
Delaware- Catholics
New York- Most of them were Protestant
New Jersey- Catholic and Protestant
Pennsylvania- All religions mixed

8. ← Triangular Trade Major Events In 1620-1740-N.K.
Major events that had occurred in the middle colonies, are as follows:
In , New Netherlands had become what we know today, New York. In 1630, The Great Migration, had started. The Great Migration, was when there were many English People, migrating to the America’s, between In 1638, this was the time when the Duke of York, had combined New Netherlands, and New Sweden into one piece of land, and renamed it into Delaware.
, was The Navigation Acts. Each colony had to find a way to make lots of money, especially for the trade in the Triangular Trade, and the Mercantilism. in 1664, It was the time when New Jersey was settled.
← Triangular Trade

9. More Major Events -Nick
In , there were more major events that had occurred near, or happened when the middle colonies were around. In 1682, that was the time when the Quakers (is a Religious Society of Friends) had settled into Pennsylvania.
In , there weren’t as much major events that had happened. In 1702, the two parts of New Jersey Colony were united into a royal colony. There aren’t much major events that had happened to the MIddle Colonies, during the year
← When New Jersey was separated

10. Famous People-Nick
Some famous people that were living in the middle colonies were:
New York: Delaware: New Jersey: Pennsylvania:
Peter Minuit Peter Minuit Lord Berkley William Penn
Peter Stuyvesant George Carteret
Peter Minuit ➜
← George Carteret

11. Famous People
Péter Minuit

12. Works Cited
"Colonial America Time Period." ***. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Jan
"Population of the 13 Colonies " YT&T. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Jan
"Middle Colonies." ***. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Jan
education & cities
"The Demographics of the Middle Colonies - Boundless Open Textbook."Boundless. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Jan
"The History of Education in America." The History of Education in America. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Jan
"New Page 1." New Page 1. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Jan
Picture on my famous people slide
pic of pete min
george carteret picture
"Navigation Acts." ***. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Jan

13. Work Cited continued…
triangular trade

14. ARE YOU READY FOR THE TEST?!?!