1. Essential Question: Why do people move?
SSUSH1 – Compare and Contrast the development of English settlement and colonization during the 17th century
Essential Question: Why do people move?

2. d. Explain the development of the Mid-Atlantic Colonies, including but not limited to reasons established, impact of location and place, relations with American Indians, and economic development
New Netherland
Established by Dutch in 1614
Founded as a private money-making venture
Trade was centered in New Amsterdam (Present day NYC)
Location made it attractive for English annexation
English seized control in 1664
Governor Peter Stuyvesant negotiated colony transfer peacefully

3. Mid-Atlantic Colonies created from New Netherlands colony
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Geographic
Good harbors and river systems that shaped development
Hudson/Delaware River
Provided highways to interior of North America
Furs acquired inland from American Indians were traded for European tools and firearms
Farmers used to ship wheat and other agricultural goods
Provided access to imported manufactured goods

4. American Indians
Two major language groups found here
Algonquian and Iroguois
Typically relied upon for trade and did not make war on settlers
Pennsylvania
William Penn insisted that Pennsylvania settlers compensated for their lands
United all of coast under English rule
Economicaclly
Region’s colonies developed strong merchant centers but also farmed significant amounts of corn and wheat
Truly a bridge between New England and Southern colonies as a mixture of both

5. New York/New jersey
King Charles II gave to brother James as proprietary colony in James was, you guessed it, the Duke of York…New York
Orginal settlers (dutch) were allowed to stay, speak their own language, and worship as they pleased
Preserved cultural and religious diversity
Some parts of New York still reflect old colony
Wall Street
Okay okay it was not actually built to keep out British…but hey it’s Hollywood, It was built to keep out Native
New Jersey
Well New York was just too big to administer sooo James gave his two friends Lord John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret part of land which became New Jersey
Land was sold dirt cheap to attract settlers

6. Pennsylvania
William Penn receives land grant in North America as repayment of a debt the king owed his father
Established Pennsylvania as Quaker Colony 1682
Penn belonged to religious group Quakers (The Religious Society of Friends)
Persecuted in England for their beliefs
Basic ideology: everyone possesses an “inner light” through which individuals are capable of their own religious interpretation without the need for formal clergy.
Women
Were afforded full participation in the faith, as they too possessed as inner light.
Religious toleration/treatment of Native Americans
Believed in toleration and fair treatment