1. 2.4 The Middle Colonies OBJECTIVE:
Learn about the founding of New Netherland and Pennsylvania
Understand the reasons for these colonies success.
HW: 3.1

3. New Netherland

4. New Netherlands Established by the Dutch New Amsterdam Diverse colony
Fur trading posts
New Netherlands
West India Company
New Amsterdam
Founded in 1625, capital of the colony
Diverse colony
Religious toleration
Friendly relations with Natives
English takeover
By force
No resistance

5. The Quakers Pennsylvania Quakers Obtained by William Penn (proprietor)
Paid off a debt
“Penn’s Woods”
Quakers
God’s “inner light”
Informal
Anyone could preach
Pacifist
Didn’t serve in the military

6. William Penn Saw his colony as a “Holy Experiment”
Everyone received 50 acres
Assembly style government
Good relations with Native Americans
Saw them as people
Paid for the land
No major conflict
50 years
Never made $ from the colony
His principles and idea

8. Messy Marylanders
1632: George Calvert, Lord Baltimore is granted land to establish the colony of Maryland
Proprietorship
Settled by his sons

9. Maryland Founded in 1634 by Lord Baltimore
Haven for Catholics in Prot. England
Jesuits part of first colony in St. Mary’s City, said first mass in English Colonies
Act of Toleration – 1649 – Religious Freedom
Why?
Mixed success for Catholics, becomes Protestant majority and later Royal Colony
“Brown Gold”

10. Maryland Act of Toleration – 1649 – Religious Freedom
The proprietors, although of the Roman Catholic faith, welcomed the Puritans who were driven out of Virginia and other nonconformists; and even the Quakers were allowed to make a settlement. The colony, in fact, became an asylum for the persecuted of various sects. Religious liberty, however, brought with it religious strife. For years bitter conflicts were waged between the different sects, first one and then the other getting the upper hand. (Source: Causes and effects in American History, E. Morse)
Result?
Mixed success…becomes Protestant majority and later Royal Colony

11. Baltimore in 1752, from a sketch by John Moale, Esq.
Baltimore was founded in 1629 and served as a shipping center for Maryland tobacco growers. By 1752, when this view was drawn, it had begun to show signs of developing into a prosperous port city. After the American Revolution, Baltimore expanded and by the 1790s boasted a population of over twenty thousand. (Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore)
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12. The other proprietary colonies
Carolinas (1663)
Began as Proprietary colonies for 12 friends of king Charles II (Carolas) Plantation style Agriculture
Eventually assumed as Royal colonies
Georgia 1732 (King George II)
James Ogelthorpe (charity colony)
No self rule, all decisions made for them
Failed silk ideas
Garrison against Spain