1. Quickfire What is William Penn? (In this area)
Where are the ancestors of many people in Pella from?
T/F New York City is in the record books for one of the cheapest land purchases in history
Find the connections in the lecture!

2. Middle Colonies
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3. New York: Dutch in North America
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The Dutch settled in two locations
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____________(1623)
In present day
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4. New York: Dutch in North America
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The Dutch buy the island of __________________ for $30.
They name the colony _________________________after Amsterdam in the Netherlands
This is future site of New York City (after the English capture it)
Today Manhattan is worth over fifty billion dollars (it’s one of the best buys in history)

5. Patroon System ______________________
Huge estates granted to promoters who would settle 50 persons on them. (One estate in Albany larger than state of Rhode Island!
Patroons live like lords, ruling their farm workers like peasants.
This is an example of how slavery was not yet _________________.

6. Delaware ________________________ 1638-1655
Sweden comes out of nowhere and settles modern day ____________________!
Why is this important?
Because the Swedish settlers invented the _____________, duh!
They are absorbed by New Netherlands (Dutch)
Then New Netherlands is conquered by the English and renamed New York

7. The English are as original as usual…
What should we call New Netherlands?
____________(King’s Brother)
The English rename New Netherlands after the lord who paid for the conquest: the ___________(New York, 1664)
They also rename the city of New Amsterdam…New York City.
Yeah, original (I know).
In 1685, New York becomes the direct property of ______.

8. The Quakers Simple and democratic; sought religious and civic freedom.
A religious group from England
Simple and democratic; sought religious and civic freedom.
Believed in an “_________________," not scripture or religious leaders
all men as equal in God's eyes.
Suffered persecution in New England & other colonies for opposing authority.
___________in England emerged during mid-1600's (Religious Society of Friends)
They opposed authority (like kings)
Refused to support the English Church with taxes
Didn’t pay religious leaders
Took no oaths.
__________________: Refused military service; advocated passive resistance

9. Pennsylvania Penn’s Forest ________________________
1681, William Penn gained huge grant from the king in return for money owed to his father.
He founded colony as a haven for ____________________
He also did it to experiment with government
…while making a profit.
Penn’s “_________________": Religious toleration among many denominations.