Settlement of the Middle
Colonies
 Do Now: Word Scramble : tsate apm uiqz
 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
 1621 Dutch gov’t give
Dutch West India
Company permission to
colonize New Netherland
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Est. to increase lucrative
fur trading industry
New Amsterdam founded
as capital in 1625
A Diverse Colony
 Dutch West India Company made lots of money in
fur trade
 Struggle to attract Dutch settlers
 New Netherland opened its borders to European
settlers, even free and enslaved Africans
 1660’s 1/5 of New Netherland’s population was of
African ancestry
The English Take Over
 New Netherland =
‘Dutch Wedge’
 King Charles sends Duke
of York to drive out the
Dutch
 Duke of York takes it
over without firing a
single shot
 Renames it New York
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Gives piece to friend: New
Jersey
The Quakers Settle PA
 Penn’s “Holy Experiment”
 Quakers of England:
Believed God’s inner light burned in everyone
 No formal services; allowed any person to speak
 Dressed plainly; pacifists who refused fight or join the military
 Harassed by Anglicans and Puritans of England
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William Penn recognizes its time to leave England in search of
religious freedom
“Holy Experiment”
No land owning aristocracy; each settler give 50 acres of land and
could vote
 Capital- “City of Brotherly love” or Philadelphia
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Native American Relations
 “People approached in
friendship would
respond in friendship”
 Before arriving Penn
sends letter to tribe
inhabiting area: (read
excerpt)
 Penn regulated trade
with NA- why??
 Over 50 years colonists
and natives lived in
relative peace
13 Colonies
 By 1752 there were 13
British colonies in
America
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MA, NH, CT, RI, NY, PA,
NJ, MD, DE, VA, NC, SC,
GA,
 A growing desire for
independence would
soon put a strain on their
relationship with
England
POP QUIZ
 Who founded the colony of Pennsylvania?
 What was the capital of New Netherlands, and what was
it later re-named?
 List the original 13 colonies.
 1) William Penn
 2) New Amsterdam/New York
 3) MA, NH, CT, RI, NY, PA, MD, DE, NJ, VA, NC, SC, GA