1. Quickfire What is William Penn? (In this area)
Where are the ancestors of many people in Pella from?
T/F New York City is in the record books for one of the cheapest land purchases in history
Find the connections in the lecture!

2. Middle Colonies
Pennsylvania
New York
New Jersey
Delaware

3. New York: Dutch in North America
NEW NETHERLANDS
The Dutch settled in two locations
Delaware River
Hudson River (1623)
In present day
Delaware
New York

4. New York: Dutch in North America
NEW AMSTERDAM
NEW YORK CITY
The Dutch buy the island of Manhattan for $30.
They name the colony NEW AMSTERDAM after Amsterdam in the Netherlands
This is future site of New York City (after the English capture it)
Today Manhattan is worth over fifty billion dollars (it’s one of the best buys in history)

5. Patroon System Dutch Patroon
Huge estates granted to promoters who would settle 50 persons on them. (One estate in Albany larger than state of Rhode Island!
Patroons live like lords, ruling their farm workers like peasants.
This is an example of how slavery was not yet racial.

6. Delaware
NEW SWEDEN
Sweden comes out of nowhere and settles modern day Delaware!
Why is this important?
Because the Swedish settlers invented the log cabin, duh!
They are absorbed by New Netherlands (Dutch)
Then New Netherlands is conquered by the English and renamed New York

7. The English are as original as usual…
What should we call New Netherlands?
Duke of York (King’s Brother)
The English rename New Netherlands after the lord who paid for the conquest: the Duke of York (New York, 1664)
They also rename the city of New Amsterdam…New York City.
Yeah, original (I know).
In 1685, New York becomes the direct property of the king.

8. The Quakers Simple and democratic; sought religious and civic freedom.
A religious group from England
Simple and democratic; sought religious and civic freedom.
Believed in an "inner light," not scripture or religious leaders
all men as equal in God's eyes.
Suffered persecution in New England & other colonies for opposing authority.
Quakers in England emerged during mid-1600's (Religious Society of Friends)
They opposed authority (like kings)
Refused to support the English Church with taxes
Didn’t pay religious leaders
Took no oaths.
Pacifists: Refused military service; advocated passive resistance

9. Pennsylvania Penn’s Forest William Penn
1681, William Penn gained huge grant from the king in return for money owed to his father.
He founded colony as a haven for Quakers
He also did it to experiment with government
…while making a profit.
Penn’s "Holy Experiment": Religious toleration among many denominations.