1. Topic: Rating the Diversity of the Middle Colonies.

2. Dutch find New Amsterdam
1600: Dutch become major economic and naval power
Explorers in the New World
Owned by Dutch West India Company:
Patroonships
Port towns
Several ethnicities
No freedom or religious toleration
“Aristocratic” features
Peter Stuyvesant

3. “New York” Dutch fighting Swedes, New England, Indians
1662: British seize NY
East coast under British rule
Dutch landowners remained strong under British rule
Dutch cultural contributions

4. Pennsylvania: Penn’s Woodland
Quaker “dissent”
William Penn
A haven for Quakers and others
“best advertised”
Numerous ethnic groups
“Liberalism”
Native Policy
Quakers spread into New Jersey, Delaware also

5. Conclusion 1) Why were the Middle Colonies so ethnically diverse?
2) Some state that the Middle Colonies set “the pattern” for US development. Do you agree? Explain