Settling the Middle and Southern Colonies Chapter 3

Settling the Middle and Southern Colonies Chapter 3 Sections 3

The Middle Colonies • Characteristics of the Middle Colonies • Variety of ethnic & religious groups • Good farm land shipping area

New Netherlands Becomes New York • Originally Dutch colony • Dutch located between English colonies: New England & Virginia colonies • English drive Dutch out – 1664 • King Charles II gives area to his brother the Duke of York • Renamed New York

New Jersey • Duke of York • Gives part of his land to friends: – George Carteret & John Berkeley • Becomes New Jersey • Place for religious freedom

Pennsylvania - 1680 • Founded by William Penn • Created a colony for Quakers • Believed each person could know God directly • Not need ministers

Pennsylvania • A “holy experiment” – welcomed different religious and ethnic groups into the colony • Treated Native Americans fairly • Very successful colony – wealthy colony • 1703 lower region formed Delaware Colony

Maryland - 1632 Cecilius Calvert – Lord Baltimore • Colony for Catholics • 1649 – Catholics are a minority • Acts of Toleration – insure Catholic rights

The Carolinas - 1663 • 1729 became a royal colony • Divided into North and South

Georgia - 1732 • Founder James Oglethorpe • Place for debtors & poor to start over • Military outpost against the Spanish in Florida • Strict rules = unrest among settlers = became royal colony