NEW JERSEY COLONY

HISTORY

• Who: John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret.
• What: the duke of York gave the bottom part of New York to Berkeley and Carteret.
• Where: between the Hudson and Delaware Rivers.
• When: 1638.
• Why: Profit from selling land.

GEOGRAPHY

• Location: North 40° West 74.5°
• West of Atlantic Ocean.
• North of Delaware
• East of Pennsylvania
• South of New York.

PLACE

• Arts: wax, landscaping, marble, and watercolor.
• Daily Life: people went to work, they traded, they eat corn
• seafood if you live by the water.
• Social Groups: Native Americans, Dutch, The British,
• and some Swedish immigrants.

HUMAN ENVIRONMENTAL INTERACTIONS

• Natural Resources: Good farmland, timber, furs, coal, and Iron ore.
• Climate: warm summers and mild winters, suited for farming.
• Jobs: Most people worked at iron mills. Some worked at farms.

MOVEMENT

• People: by foot.
• Ideas/Info: meetings and speeches.
• Products: trading.

REGION

• Middle Colonies
• Mid-Atlantic Region

ECONOMY

• They made a living by working at iron mills or farming.
• Their major exports are agricultural items and natural items
• Like cattle, grain, rice, indigo dye, and wheat.
• Native Americans were involved
• With trade by trading furs. (Beaver Hats, Deerskin trade)

GOVERNMENT

• Their government was a royal country.
• Britain had control of the government.
• The requirements for voting were white men who own property.
• Native Americans interacted by helping them plant and
• trade, then they broke out into war in 1636.

GOVERNMENT

• The religion most used was
• Catholics, Lutherans, and Jews.
• New Jersey did allow religion freedom
• The role New Jersey played in the revolution
• was the cross of the Revolution and Military Capital of the Revolution

WEBSITES

• http://www.landofthebrave.info/new-jersey-colony.htm
• http://www.xtimeline.com/evt/view.aspx?id=733989