Chapter 4 Colonial America

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Lesson 3 Middle Colonies

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English Colonies in America

•1660- England had ______of colonies in what is now the United States

•In the ______were ______, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island

•In the ______were ______and Virginia

•Between the two groups of English colonies were lands the ______controlled

Dutch Colonies

•Called ______

•Main settlement was New Amsterdam, located on ______Island

•Had a good ______

•Became a ______to and from the Americas

•Dutch West India Company wanted more ______

•Offered large estates to anyone who could bring ______to work the land

•The landowners who acquired these estates were called ______

•Patroons ______

•Had their own courts and ______

•Settlers owed the patroon ______and a share of their crops

England Takes Over

•England wanted to ______the Dutch Colony

•Because of its ______

•1664- England sent a fleet to ______New Amsterdam

•Peter Stuyvesant was the ______

•He was ______and surrendered the colony to the English

•King Charles II gave the colony to his ______, the Duke of York, who renamed it ______

•It was a ____________

•A colony in which the ______, or proprietor, owned all the land and controlled the government

•Different from the New England colonies, where ______elected the governor and an assembly

•Not until 1691 did the English government allow citizens of New York______their legislature

The Population of New York

•New York continued to ______under English control

•Had a ______

•______, German, Swedish, and Native American

•1664- New York had about ______inhabitants

•Including at least 300 ______Africans

•1683- Population was about ______people

New Jersey

•Duke of York gave the ______of his colony to Lord John Berkeley and Sir John Carteret

•Named it ______after the island of Jersey in the English Channel (Carteret was born there)

•To attract settlers, thy offered large areas of land and ______

•Also ______and ______

•The Assembly would make the local laws and set ______rates

The Population of New Jersey

•A place of ______diversity

•Had ______so it did not develop a major port or city like New York

•The proprietors made ______

•By 1702 New Jersey had returned to the king, becoming a ______

•Colonists continued to make ______

Pennsylvania

•King Charles II gave land to ______to______

•Named it ______and was nearly as large as England

•Penn saw this as a “______”

•A chance to put his ______ideals into practice

•The Quakers, or ______believed that ______

•People could follow their “inner light” to ______

•They did not need a ______to guide them

•Quakers were pacifists, people who refuse to use force or to ______in wars

•They were ______in England

Penn in Pennsylvania

•1682- Penn supervised the building of ______, the “city of brotherly love”

•Penn designed the city and wrote their first ______

•Penn believed the land belonged to the Native Americans and that settlers should ______for it

•He negotiated several ______with local Native Americans

The Population of Pennsylvania

•1683- There were more than 3,000 English, Welsh, Dutch, and ______settlers

•1701, Charter of Liberties allowed colonists to elect representatives to the ______

•Swedes settled ______Pennsylvania

•The ______allowed them to form their own legislature

•They then functioned, or operated, as a separate colony known as ______under Pennsylvania’s governor

Essential Question:

How did the Middle Colonies develop?

New York: Thriving ______; major port, proprietary colony; diverse population

New Jersey: ______given to other proprietors; land and freedoms offered to attract settlers; diverse population; lacked major port so less profitable; became a ______colony

Pennsylvania: established under ______ideals; welcomed diverse immigrants; constitution; elected legislature

Delaware: ______settled by the ______; allowed to function as a separate colony