MIDDLE COLONY

WHAT STATES WERE PART OF THE COLONY!

• New York
• New Jersey
• Pennsylvania
• Delaware

NEW YORK!

• Was originally known as New Netherland
• Given to the Duke of York by his brother King Charles II.
• Most of the settlers were Protestants.
• In the early years the settlers traded with the Indians for fur.
• The Dutch set up the colony!

NEW JERSEY!

• The duke of York gave some of the land to his friends.(lord Berkeley, sir George carteret.
• It was a proprietary colony. & fertile farmland a wealth of other sources that attracted people from many lands.
• Became a royal colony , which is a colony under direct control of the English crown.
• Colony charter protected religious freedom and rights of an assembly that voted on local matters.
• Settlers came from Finland, Ireland, Scotland, Germany, and Sweden. / New England colonist hoping to find better farmland chose to relocate to New Jersey.

PENNSYLVANIA!

• William Penn was the founder of Pennsylvania in 1681!
• Quakers where people that lived in Pennsylvania.
• Penn thought of this colony as a " holy experiment." Wanted it to model religious freedom.
• Insisted people pay for the land. Native Indians respected him for the policy so their were many years of peace with the Indians.
• African slaves made up 1/3 of all the immigrants that came to the colony between 1730 and 1750!/ most worked as laborers.

DELAWARE!

• The region was known as Pennsylvania lower counties
• Settlers in the lower counties did not want to send delegates to a distant assembly in Philadelphia.
• In 1704 the lower counties would break away to form the colony of Delaware.
• In 1701 Penn allowed them to elect their own assembly.

LIFE IN THE MIDDLE COLONIES!

• Majority of the people made their living off of farming!
• Found more favorable conditions in the middle colonies than in New England.
• Winters were milder than in New England and growing season lasted longer

THRIVING ECONOMY!

• In the middle colonies they raised rye, wheat and barley.
• Wheat barley and rye were cash crops sold for money in the market.
• Exported so much grain they became known as the bread-basket colonies
• Farmers in the middle colonies raised hearts of cattle and pigs.
• Landowners hired workers to help with the planting, harvesting, and other tasks/ settlers in Delaware river valley profited from the region's rich deposits of iron ore

MIDDLE COLONY HOMES!

• Towns were less important than in New England.
• Swedish settlers introduced log cabins to the Americas.
• The Dutch used red bricks to build narrow, high-walled houses.
• German settlers developed a wood-burning stove that heated a home better than a fireplace.
• Households were self-sufficient, which meant that everything needed for survival - food clothing and any other items were made at home.