Settlement of the Middle
Colonies
Chapter 2
Section 4
• Do Now: “Hyde Central Tutorial”
• Obj: New Netherland becomes New York
▫ Penn’s “Holy Experiment”
▫ 13 Colonies Form
• HW: Main Ideas #1-10 pg 62
Vocab
• William Penn
• New Netherland
• proprietor
• Quakers
The Dutch Found New Netherland
• A Diverse Colony:
▫ New Amsterdam (New York) was capital of Dutch
colony New Netherlands
▫ Established to continue lucrative fur trading
business
▫ More interested in trading with Natives then
fighting them
▫ 1660’s Dutch open colony to many diff. European
settlers
The English Take Over
• King Charles II saw New Netherland as a
“wedge”
▫ 1664 granted his brother the Duke of York to drive
out the Dutch
▫ He arrives and the Dutch surrender without a
single shot being fired
▫ Duke renames the colony New York and gives a
piece to his friends
 They name their new colony New Jersey
The Quakers Settle Pennsylvania
• Penn’s - Holy Experiment
▫ Quaker harassed by
Anglicans and Puritans for
passive life-style
▫ Held informal services and
allow anyone to speak
▫ Establishes PA with
religious freedom and no
land owning aristocracy
▫ Est. capital “City of
Brotherly Love”
or…..Philadelphia
The Quakers Settle in PA
• Native American
Relations:
▫ Penn believed people
met with friendship
would respond with
friendship
▫ (read “Personal Voice”)
▫ Penn regulated trade
between settlers and
natives
▫ Natives respected Penn
and lived in peace for
over 50 years
The Thirteen Colonies
• By 1752 their were 13 colonies
in Britain’s American Empire
▫ Massachusetts, New
Hampshire, New York, Rhode
Island, Connecticut,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
Delaware, Maryland,
Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia
• Soon a growing desire for
independence would put a
strain on their relationship
with England
POP QUIZ
• Who Established the colony of Pennsylvania?
▫ William Penn
• What was the capital of New Netherlands? And
what was it renamed?
▫ New Amsterdam/New York
• What are the original 13 Colonies?
▫ Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
Reminders
• HW: Main Ideas #1-10 pg 62
• Leave the room better than
you found it!!!