Geography and Climate
What kind of soil did the Middle Colonies have?
What is deep, rich, fertile soil
What did many of the Middle Colonists do for a living?
Farming
What is the word that means that people came from different areas of the world?
diverse
Who settled the Middle Colonies?
The Dutch West India Company
Who was a famous Quaker?
William Penn.
They had a longer growing season than the New England colonies.
What did the rain and sun do for the growing season?
What did they do with the extra food they grew?
Exported them to the other cities.
How were the Middle Colonies compared to the New England colonies different in acceptance of people from other places?
tolerant
Who did King Charles give the colony, "New York" to?
The Duke of York
Why did William Penn get put in jail?
He went for attending Quaker meetings and writing religious meetings.
The two main rivers in the Middle Colonies were?
The Hudson and the Delaware rivers.
What was the nickname given to the Middle Colonies?
The Bread Basket Colonies
What did you have to be if you lived in the New England Colonies?
Puritains
What did East Jersey and West Jersey become?
New Jersey
What 2 things Quakers did not agree about?
religion and not fighting in wars.
Piedmont means...
Rolling Hills
What are the people called who made items by hand?
Artisans
What does the term melting pot mean?
People came from everywhere to live there.
Where was the major port for immigrants?
New York City
What does "landlock mean?
There is land all around the place
What type of plains did the middle colonies have?
Coastal plains
What do you call the type of person who learns a trade while working a job?
apprentice
In the New England colonies, if you were not Puritain, what did you have to do?
Leave
What did proprietors want to happen?
People to by land.
What does the word "sylviania" mean?
The woods