The Middle Colonies

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The Middle Colonies

• Delaware
• Founded in 1638
• Founded by William Penn
• Presented by Morgan Barnes and
• Jade Dioguardi

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Geographical Characteristics climate

• Glaciers dropped fertile soil.
• Warm damp climate.
• A good farming region.
• It was warm in the summer and cold in the winter.
• Both men and woman spent long hours in the field
  and at home.789

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Reason for settlement

• Worship Freely.
• James the Duke of York gave William Penn more
  land because he didnt want the land anymore.
• This land later became Delaware.

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Religious Beliefs

• They were Catholics, Jews, Quakers, and
  Lutherans.
• They believed that all people could worship
  Freely.
• They could voice their opinions.

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Government

• Worship Freely.
• Colonists could elect an assembly.
• In England Penn was a member of a religious group
  called the society of friends, or Quakers.
• In Delaware it was mostly Quakers.

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Education

• Only older men could go to collage.
• Parents had to teach their kids how to read and
  write.
• Most children in the Middle colonies learned how
  to read write but many colonies believed that
  it was most important for children to learn
  useful work skills
• Parents expected their children to learn a
  business or run the family farm instead of going
  to collage.

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Agriculture/Manufacturing

• Colonists hunted and trapped deer and beaver.
• They grew grain, rice, and tobacco.
• Colonists were free to make decisions they
  believed would earn them the most money.
• They had a free market economy.
• They also planted indigo which was important to
  the Middle colonies because it could be made into
  a blue dye to color cloth.
• Some of the laborers in the Middle colonies were
  enslaved Africans they worked in laundries, as
  house servants or on the docks loading and
  unloading ships.

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Settlements/Homes

• The people of the Middle colonies came from many
  lands.
• Colonists were German, Dutch, Scots-Irish,
  Scan-dinavian, and English.
• Many people came to Delaware because they didnt
  agree with the church of England.

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Towns/cities

• New Amsterdam (City)
• New Sweden (city) was the original name of
  Delaware.
• In 1776, the colony officially became Delaware.
• Wilmington

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Other interesting facts to know

• The Middle colonies were a place where people
  from many different countries could live together
  and earn a good living.
• William Penn got along with the Indians when most
  other people fought with the Indians.
• There were 2,500 people in Delaware in 1700, and
  in 1770 there were 35,500 people in Delaware.
• Delaware was right next to Maryland.

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Important people to know

• John Berkley
• Olaudah Equono
• Benjamin Franklin
• Henry Hudson
• Peter Minuit
• Peter Stuyvesant
• William Penn