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The Middle Colonies

The Middle Colonies

The Middle Colonies • Also known as the “Bread Colonies” • Milder winters than the New England colonies and an average growing season, great for growing grain. • Full of many wide, easily navigable rivers

Squatters. . . • The British planned on settling the Middle Colonies, but the Dutch were already there. • The colony of New Amsterdam was led by Peter Stuyvesant and it was competing economically with the New England colonies.

The British make a move. . . • The British surrounded the colony, offering citizenship to the people if they gave up. • Finding that his people had no will to fight, Stuyvesant surrendered the colony.

New Amsterdam New York! • After the Dutch surrendered in 1664, New York was born. • Like most of the Middle Colonies, New York was a proprietary colony

Proprietary colony Here, you do it! • A Proprietary colony is when the power the government holds over the colony is given to a private landholder

The Quakers and Pennsylvania • The Quakers were a breakaway group of Puritans • They believed in individual relationships with God, and did not have priests.

William Penn • Eager to get rid of the Quakers, the king loved The idea of William Penn for a mass immigration to America

Pennsylvania! • William Penn is given a land grant for Pennsylvania • Penn drafted a Frame of Government that guaranteed freedom of religion, free elactions, jury trials and more

A Utopia!

Quick Assignment • Using your notes on the New England Colonies and the Middle Colonies, draw a Venn Diagram and compare and contrast the two colonial regions New England Colonies Both Middle Colonies