Middle Colonies…

The Breadbasket Colonies

New York 1624New Jersey 1664

Pennsylvania 1681Delaware 1681 (1776)

What attracted people:

Religious freedom Farming A better life Representative government Equality

New Amsterdam – New York

Colony of New Netherland founded by Dutch in 1624

Peter Stuyvesant - governor Taken over by English Duke of

York in 1664 Renamed New York Proprietary colony

Peter Stuyvesant

Pennsylvania

William Penn – QuakerQuakers persecuted in

EnglandBelieved all people should

live together in peace and harmony

Pennsylvania

Penn given grant in 1681Became one of the

wealthiest colonies Delaware became

separate colony laterCalled “Penn’s woods”

Philadelphia - “city of brotherly love”

Quaker Ideas

No tax $ for wars Did not need church

Inner spark All men created =

All religions and ethnic groups welcomed

Treated Native Americans fairly

Against slavery