1. Middle Colonies Booksearch Review

2. What country emerged as a major commercial and naval power during the 17th century?
Dutch

3. How many Anglo-Dutch Naval wars were fought?3

4. Where did the Dutch establish an enormous and profitable empire for over 300 years?
East Indies

5. The Dutch East India Company had an army of about _______________ and a fleet of _____________ ships.
10,000
190

6. What famous English explorer did the Dutch hire to sail to North America?
Henry Hudson

7. Where was he ordered to sail?
New England

8. Where did he actually sail?
Delaware Bay and New York Bay

9. A short cut through the continent
Hudson initially thought that the river later named after him could be…
A short cut through the continent

10. The Dutch West India Company focused most of their energies on this part of the world
Caribbean

11. Spanish 15 million dollars
In 1628 the Dutch West India Company captured a _________treasure ship worth how much money?
Spanish 15 million dollars

12. The Dutch West India Company had outposts in _________and sugar industry in _________.
Africa Brazil

13. What was the primary reason for the establishment of New Netherland 1623-1624?
Fur Trade

14. The Dutch West India Company bought this famous island from the Natives in exchange for worthless trinkets.
Manhattan

15. Name the colony run by Dutch Company stockholders established purely for business purposes.
New Amsterdam

16. Investors had no care for…
Religious tolerance
Free speech
Democratic practice

17. What types of community made up the population of New Amsterdam?
Aristocratic

18. What were “patroonships”?
Granted to promoters who would settle at least 50 people on an area of land

19. Friction with English and Swedish Neighbors

20. No! They demanded their money regardless of the colonies welfare
Were company shareholders willing to wait to be paid if it meant ensuring the welfare of the colony?
No! They demanded their money regardless of the colonies welfare

21. Where does the famous Wall Street get its name? Why was it constructed?
The settlers of New Amsterdam built an actual wall to try to keep the Natives out

22. Three of four member colonies that made up the New England Confederation voted to wipe out the Dutch New Netherland colony with force. Which colony voted against this action and why?
MA vetoed the action because their colony would have been responsible for providing most of the troops necessary to complete the mission.

23. The Swedish plant the colony of New Sweden on what famous river between 1638-1655?
Delaware

24. In 1655 who dispatched a small military expedition to take the Swedish colony? Was there a fight?
Dutch No!

25. Dutch Residues in New York

26. What country eventually takes New Amsterdam from the Dutch?
England

27. Describe some of the benefits of the location of the New York colony:
Ocean harbors
Strategic location in the middle of the mainland colonies
Hudson river access

28. Name one of the powerful aristocratic landowning families in New York.
Livingstons De Lancys

29. Did the nature of the New York colony encourage or discourage European immigrants? Why?
Discouraged because it had monopolistic land policies and a lordly atmosphere

30. Name four Dutch social customs that remain today:
Easter eggs
Santa Clause
waffles
sauerkraut
bowling
sleighing
skating
golf

31. Penn’s Holy Experiment in Pennsylvania

32. What group of people refused to support the Church of England with taxes?
Quakers

33. Name three characteristics of common practices of the Quakers:
Simple meeting houses
unpaid clergy
spoke for themselves at meetings
felt all were equals
would take no oath
refused military service

34. What were the three motivating factors as to why William Penn settled Pennsylvania?
establish a place for the Quaker people
experiment with liberal ideas about government
profit

35. Did William Penn choose to advertise Pennsylvania or did he allow people to find his colony through word of mouth? Do you think his strategy worked?
Best advertised of all colonies: sent out paid agents and distributed pamphlets in multiple languages

36. Quaker Pennsylvania and Its Neighbors

37. How did Penn acquire the land for Pennsylvania?
Purchased from Natives

38. Were the Penn and the Quakers able to live peacefully with the Natives?
Yes

39. Who was responsible for electing the representative assembly in P.A.?
Landowners

40. What was guaranteed to all residents of Pennsylvania?
Religious freedom

41. What three characteristics is Pennsylvania most known for?
A) economic opportunity
B) civil liberty
C) religious freedom

42. Virginia and Massachusetts
In 1700 who were the only 2 colonies to surpass Pennsylvania is population and wealth?
Virginia and Massachusetts

43. What area did many people who migrated to settle in New Jersey come from?
New England

44. What year was East and West New Jersey combined into one royal colony?
1702

45. Pennsylvania governed what other colony until after the Revolution?
Delaware

46. The Middle Way in the Middle Colonies

47. The middle colonies were known as the ________________colonies.
Bread

48. Population is more ethnically mixed Religious toleration
Choose one geographical and one cultural aspect of the Middle Colonies that set it apart from both the Northern and Southern colonies and explain.
Population is more ethnically mixed
Religious toleration
Democratic control
Desirable land more easily acquired.