1. 2.5 – The Middle Colonies

2. New England
Middle Colonies
English
Chesapeake

3. Middle Colonies
Colonized by:
the Netherlands
(the Dutch)
and
Sweden
(the Swedes)

4. New Netherland

5. Middle Colonies
Colonized by:
the Netherlands
(the Dutch)
and
Sweden
(the Swedes)

6. Peter Stuyvesant
New Sweden

7. New England
33,000
Middle Colonies
5,000
English
Chesapeake
25,000

9.  William Penn

10. Philadelphia 1700 – 18,000 Quakers! Anglicans! German Baptists!
Lutherans!
Philadelphia
city of brotherly love
1680 – 2,000
1700 – 18,000

11. Diversity in the Middle Colonies
ethnic diversity – Dutch, Swedes, Finns, French Protestants, Germans, Norwegians, Scots, English
religious diversity – Quakers, Baptists, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Dutch and German Reformed, Jews
**learned toleration**
against the traditional belief that uniformity = political order
**foundation for American future diversity and tolerance**