Settling the Middle Colonies Competition A Holy Experiment A Refuge From Persecution.
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New NetherlandNew NetherlandEuropean Competition
- Dutch pursue fur trade w/Natives, like French Dutch Government’s - West India Trading Company
vs.French, Company of One Hundred Associates
- Fort Orange (Albany) to New Amsterdam (New York)
- Native allies were Iroquois – French allied with Algonquin (Abenaki, Huron)
- Slave trade brought more Africans as both slaves and indentured servants
- Religious tolerance brought other Europeans ( Catholics, Muslims, Jews,
Germans, Scandanavians)
Names of towns you
Know are all Dutch!
Why did the Dutch
think it was important
to settle up and down
the Hudson River?
William Penn owned Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware; as the proprietor, he was the largest private American landowner, ever.
He got the territory from King CharlesII of England in return for a debt owed to his father.
A(nother) Holy Experiment Quakers in Pennsylvania
• No land owning aristocracy
• 50 acres of land and the right to vote
• Representative assembly throughout territory
• Respect for Natives right to the land – bought it
• Opposed to war and had peaceful relations w/ Natives