1. Bell Work What are the Middle Colonies? Who settled them?
Fill in your map if it is not yet completed.

2. Settling the Middle Colonies

3. Objectives
Identify the location of the Middle Colonies and the people who founded them.
Describe how religion affected the founding of the colonies.

4. Farming Land
Flat plains, rolling hills, grassy meadows, and thick forests
Better for farming than in the New England Colonies
Was able to export food.
Long summers and good rain amounts
Crops: Wheat, Corn, and Rye
“The Breadbasket” colonies

5. Water Sources Several large harbors along the Atlantic Ocean
Harbors were connected to the regions waterways
Rivers went far inland making trade easier

6. The Netherlands Remember: The Dutch controlled New Netherland
Life was prosperous in the Netherlands unlike in England where there was religious conflict and economic turmoil

7. Africans in New Netherland
Slaves were in the colony
Some were free, but had to pay yearly to stay free
1660 – Stuyvesant gave land on Manhattan to about 40 former enslaved people
This land became New Netherland’s first community of FREE AFRICANS

8. English want control
1664 – King Charles II gave his brother James, the Duke of York the land between Maine and the Delaware River
This land included New Netherland

9. WAR??? The Duke of York sent 4 warships to take over New Netherland
Stuyvesant wanted to fight, but the colonist did not want to due to lack of people and gun powder
Stuyvesant surrendered New Netherland to the English without a gun shot being fired.

10. Dutch Colony Split New York New Jersey Duke of York keeps for himself
New Amsterdam becomes NYC
Dutch stayed and were promised fair treatment
New Jersey
The Duke gives NJ to his friends, John Berkeley and George Carteret
Offer land at low prices
Most that come are with the Quakers known as the “Society of Friends”

11. Quakers Believed ALL people were equal
Refused to fight in wars or swear loyalty to any king
Thousands of Quakers were forced to leave England
1674- group bought land from Berkeley and found Salem, NJ  The first Quaker settlement

12. Pennsylvania and Delaware
1681 – King Charles II gave a charter to William Penn, an English Quaker
Penn was the proprietor (or owner) of what is now Pennsylvania

13. A New Plan of Government (PA)
Penn got the land due to money owed his father
Pennsylvania = Penn’s Woods
Penn wanted all people to live peacefully in PA
He wanted Native American’s to be treated with JUSTICE

14. Pennsylvania Government
1682 – wrote by Penn THE FRAME OF GOVENRMENT OF PENNSYLVANIA
The plan set up a legislature called the General Assembly
Later wrote Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges – allowed white men to elect representatives to the Assembly
Citizens had the following privileges:
Freedom of speech
Freedom of religion
Right to a fair trial by a jury
Trial By Jury -group of citizen decides if a person is guilty or innocent of the crime

15. Relations with Native Americans
Penn wanted to live together in peace with the Native Americans
1682 – met with TAMANEND and other Lenni Lenape leaders
Penn paid them for the land that King Charles had given him
He built long lasting relationships with the Native Americans

16. What was unique about the Middle Colonies’ economy?
Wrap Up

17. Homework
Using the two sources provided, I’d like you to complete an APPARTS worksheet for each.