1. Coach Medford Building American History Champions
The Middle Colonies
Coach Medford
Building American History Champions

2. Objectives
Identify the society, culture, and economy of the Middle colonies
Explain why the colonies grew

3. Thoughts What would life have been like in the Middle Colonies
How many middle colonies can I name
On the sheet of construction paper, draw the Middle colonies. The middle colonies Make sure to leave room for the other colonies.
Handout a sheet of construction paper to each student – have them draw the New England colonies. Remind them to save space for Middle and Southern colonies
Provide map from Mc-Graw – Hill teachers edition Ch 3. L2 – New England Colonies

4. Questions Why did the middle colonies grow?
Who were the leaders of these three groups of dissenters and what did these leaders all have in common?
Why did the colonists continue to move down the coastline instead of moving inland?

5. New York and New Jersey
1660 – England has two sets of colonies in North America – New England and Virginia (Maryland)
Land in between was under Dutch control
Area called the New Netherlands
Main settlement was New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island

6. New Amsterdam

7. Center of Trade for the the Americas
Rich Farmland
Forest
Furs
Hudson River
Natural Seaports
Access to the north
Manhattan Island:
Center of Trade for the the Americas

8. Dutch West India Company
Controls New Netherland
Attempts to increase colony’s population by offering land grants to anyone who would bring 50 people or more to work land
Patroons – people who received grant ruled like kings
Do you believe that it is a good idea to have someone rule like a monarch? What are the benefits and risks?

10. New Netherlands no more
1664 – England sends a fleet to attack New Amsterdam
Governor Peter Stuyvesant surrenders without a fight
King Charles gives the colony his brother, James, the Duke of York
1691 – first elections held in New York
NY made up of Dutch, Germans, Swedish, Native Americans, African slaves, and Jewish people
Why do you think the King of England was so interested in New Netherlands?

11. New Jersey Duke of York decides to divide the colony into 2 colonies
Would you rather have New York or New Jersey? Why?
Would you be happy if the Duke gave you New Jersey?
New Jersey
Duke of York decides to divide the colony into 2 colonies
Land between the Hudson and Delaware rivers to Lord John Berkley and Sir George Carteret
The two proprietors name the colony New Jersey
Offered large land grants, freedom of religion, trial by jury, and a representative assembly
Jersey lacked any natural harbors; therefore, no major cities developed.

12. Pennsylvania
1680 – William Penn a wealthy Quaker, received a land payment for debt owed to his father from King Charles
Quakers believe everyone is equal
Quakers are pacifists
Penn believes land belongs to Native Americans and creates treaties accordingly
1862 – Penn designs Philadelphia
What is a pacifists – people who do not fight or engage in wars
What does Philadelphia mean? City of brotherly love

13. Delaware Swedish settle in southern Pennsylvania
Penn allows southern counties to form their own legislature
Counties functioned as a separate colony known as Delaware
Remained under authority of Pennsylvania's governor

15. Review Questions How was the colony of New York governed?
Why were there no major cities in New Jersey?
Which policies reflected Quaker beliefs in Pennsylvania?
What are some differences between the development of Pennsylvania and other colonies?
Notebook Assignment
Think about what you read about New Amsterdam: It was a bustling seaport with many different types of people. Write a paragraph that descries what it might have been like to walk down one of its busy streets. What might you have seen? Hear? Felt?
1 – First by a proprietor, then a legislature 2 – There were no natural harbors in NJ. 3 – everyone equal, colony allowed citizens to elect a legislature. 4 – developed with Quaker ideals, at peace with Native Americans, pacifists.