Quiz Wednesday

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• Quiz Wednesday
• Exploration
• Geography
• Native Americans
• Roanoke
• Jamestown
• Puritan Migration
• Plymouth, Mayflower Compact
• Massachusetts Bay, A Model of Christian Charity

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THE MIDDLE COLONIES

• New York
• New Jersey
• Pennsylvania
• Delaware

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The Middle Colonies Major Characteristics

• Ethnic Diversity
• Religious Toleration
• Grain Cultivation

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Economy
Agriculture - Grains Mid-sized farms Major trade
centers NYC and Philadelphia Long rivers
(Hudson, Delaware, Susquehanna) give access to
fur trade in the wilderness.
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Religious toleration attracts many groups
1.) Quakers (Penn., South NJ) 2.) Dutch
Reformed Church (NY NJ) 3.) German dissenters
(PA) 4.) Puritans dissatisfied with
Massachusetts. (NJ) 5.) Jews (NYC
Philadelphia) AND MANY OTHERS
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Ethnic Diversity

• Dutch (NY North NJ)
• Swedes (Delaware)
• Germans (PA)
• English (throughout)
• By the 1660s at least 15 languages were spoken
  in New York City.

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Dutch Foundation of New York
1623 Dutch West India Company founded New
Netherland in the Hudson River Valley. New
Amsterdam original name of New York City Dutch
settlers spread north up the Hudson, east to Long
Island, and west to New Jersey
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New Netherland included original Dutch
settlements along the Hudson River and
settlements taken from a small Swedish colony
along the Delaware Bay.
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NEW NETHERLAND BECOMES NEW YORK

• 1664 English king grants Duke of York land
  which includes New Netherland

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New Netherland becomes New York

• English warships arrive in New Amsterdam
• Peter Stuyvesant peacefully surrenders
• Dutch culture remains in the area

Peter Stuyvesant New Amsterdam Governor
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Pennsylvania

• 1681 William Penn founder wants a haven for
  Quakers
• Total religious freedom
• Ample cheap land
• Fair treatment of Indians
• Philadelphia means City of brotherly love

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William Penn Signs a Treaty with the Indians
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