Quickfire

• What is William Penn? (In this area)• Where are the ancestors of many people in

Pella from?• T/F New York City is in the record books for

one of the cheapest land purchases in history• Find the connections in the lecture!

Middle Colonies

• Pennsylvania• New York• New Jersey• Delaware

New York: Dutch in North America

• The Dutch settled in two locations– Delaware River – Hudson River (1623)

• In present day– Delaware– New York

NEW NETHERLANDS

New York: Dutch in North America

NEW AMSTERDAM• The Dutch buy the island of

Manhattan for $30.• They name the colony NEW

AMSTERDAM after Amsterdam in the Netherlands

• This is future site of New York City (after the English capture it)

• Today Manhattan is worth over fifty billion dollars (it’s one of the best buys in history)

NEW YORK CITY

Patroon System

• Huge estates granted to promoters who would settle 50 persons on them. (One estate in Albany larger than state of Rhode Island!

• Patroons live like lords, ruling their farm workers like peasants.

• This is an example of how slavery was not yet racial.

Dutch Patroon

Delaware

NEW SWEDEN• Sweden comes out of nowhere

and settles modern day Delaware!

• Why is this important?• Because the Swedish settlers

invented the log cabin, duh!• They are absorbed by New

Netherlands (Dutch)• Then New Netherlands is

conquered by the English and renamed New York

1638-1655

The English are as original as usual…

What should we call New Netherlands?

• The English rename New Netherlands after the lord who paid for the conquest: the Duke of York (New York, 1664)

• They also rename the city of New Amsterdam…New York City.

• Yeah, original (I know).• In 1685, New York becomes

the direct property of the king.

Duke of York (King’s Brother)

The Quakers

A religious group from England• Quakers in England emerged

during mid-1600's (Religious Society of Friends)

• They opposed authority (like kings)

• Refused to support the English Church with taxes

• Didn’t pay religious leaders• Took no oaths. • Pacifists: Refused military

service; advocated passive resistance

• Simple and democratic; sought religious and civic freedom.

• Believed in an "inner light," not scripture or religious leaders

• all men as equal in God's eyes.

• Suffered persecution in New England & other colonies for opposing authority.

Pennsylvania

Penn’s Forest• 1681, William Penn gained huge

grant from the king in return for money owed to his father.

• He founded colony as a haven for Quakers

• He also did it to experiment with government

• …while making a profit.• Penn’s "Holy Experiment":

Religious toleration among many denominations.

William Penn