1. The Middle & Southern Colonies
(skgilbert)

2. New York (New Netherland)
Originally settled by the Dutch
Fur trade with the Indians
New Amsterdam created to protect mouth of the Hudson river
What does New Amsterdam become?
That’s right – it’s
NEW YORK CITY/
Manhattan

3. Why did people go to New Netherland?
Push/Pull Factors
Push: motivate people to leave their country (religious persecution)
Pull: attract people to a new location (religious freedom, available fertile land, economic opportunity)
Get out!
Come here!

4. New Jersey Chartered by the Duke of York Relatively small and poor
Stuck between more powerful neighbors: New York and Pennsylvania

5. Pennsylvania Philadelphia – City of Brotherly Love
Founder: William Penn as repayment for a royal debt
Settlers: Mostly Quakers
-”Inner Light”
- Women spiritually
equal to men
- Pacifists
- Tolerant of other
religious groups
- Fair treatment of
Indians
Philadelphia – City of Brotherly Love
William Penn
Diversity: population & economics

6. The Other Southern Colonies
Maryland – founded as a refuge for Catholics (Maryland Religious Toleration Act)
Carolinas – very prosperous; rice
Georgia – military buffer between Spanish Florida and the wealthy Carolinas; James Oglethorpe

7. Virginia has Growing Pains
Continued battles with Native Americans
Bacon’s Rebellion – frontier farmers revolt against the “establishment” government:
Results
Poor farmers would not tolerate government run by the wealthy
Reduced taxes for frontier farmers
Bacon dies of the bloody flux (oh yeah, its ugly)
The end of indentured servitude and the rise of slavery

8. Key Ideas & Terms – Let’s Review
Joint-stock company
Powhatan
John Smith
House of Burgesses
Royal/proprietary colony
Bacon’s Rebellion
James Oglethorpe
Charter
Puritans, Separatists
Mayflower Compact
John Winthrop
Roger Williams
Anne Hutchinson
Pequot War
King Philip’s War/Metacomet
Salem Witch Trials