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Chapter Four, Section 2
Middle Colonies• Patroons: Dutch colonists who owned large estates in New Netherland
• Proprietary Colony: colony where king gave one or more people land in exchange for yearly payment
• New York Colony: Settled by Dutch;
called New Netherland; NYC was New Amsterdam
Center of business & trade – large harbor and Hudson River made trade possible
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Middle Colonies• Had tradition of religious freedom
• Governed by strict Dutchman, Peter Stuyvesant
• 1664, England takes over• King gives colony to his
brother, Duke of York• Duke changes the name
to New York
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Middle Colonies• Royal Colony: Colony where English royal family directly controlled colony
• Charter Colony: Colony where monarch granted land to a person or business
• NEW JERSEY• Originally part of NY• Given to royal friends,
Carteret and Berkeley as proprietary colony
• Settlers came from all over Europe
• Later became Royal Colony
• Valued religious freedom
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Middle Colonies• Quakers: persecuted religious group; believed all were equal in God’s eyes; didn’t recognize “nobles”; let women preach; treated all equally; pacifists
• Pacifists: don’t believe in war
• William Penn: wealthy Quaker
Monarchy owed Penns money
Offered tract of land in exchange for debt
Penn took it and name it Pennsylvania; a place for Quakers
Called it “Holy Experiment”
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Middle Colonies• Pennsylvania Dutch: Group of German settlers in southeast Pennsylvania; name came from German word for “German”, deutsch (doich)
• Cash Crops: crops grown to be sold
• Philadelphia: capital of Pennsylvania; “City of Brotherly Love”
• DELAWARE COLONY: Lower counties in southeast PN
• Large German population• Asked for independence
from Pennsylvania• Penn granted it in 1704
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Middle Colonies• Middle Colonies known as “breadbasket” of colonies
• Farming cash crops• Known for religious
freedom• Many craftspeople,
too
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