New Settlements
This island was purchased from the Manhates people in 1626 for beads and other goods.
What is Manhattan Island?
The Duke of York gave this colony to Lord John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret.
What is New Jersey?
New York City was originally called this by the Dutch.
What is New Amsterdam?
This type of colony was owned and controlled by a single person or group.
What is a proprietary colony?
This city became one of the fastest-growing locations in the New York colony.
What is New York City/New Amsterdam?
This Dutch colony became New York after being taken over by the English in 1664.
What is New Netherland?
This strict Dutch governor surrendered New Amsterdam to the English in 1664.
Who was Peter Stuyvesant?
The three southern counties that separated from Pennsylvania to form their own colony.
What is Delaware?
By 1691, New York was allowed to do this, which other English colonies already had.
What is elect a legislature?
New Jersey lacked these natural features, which prevented it from developing major ports.
What are natural harbors?
William Penn called this city the "city of brotherly love" and became America's first town planner.
What is Philadelphia?
This English Quaker founded Pennsylvania in 1680 as a "holy experiment".
Who was William Penn?
The Middle Colonies had a high level of this among its settlers, making them distinct.
What is diversity?
In 1702, New Jersey became this type of colony, directly under the king's control.
What is a royal colony?
The number of European languages Penn used in pamphlets to advertise Pennsylvania.
What is several/multiple languages?
These wealthy landowners in New Netherland were given large estates in exchange for bringing 50 settlers to work the land.
Who were patroons?
These astronomers mapped the boundary line between Maryland and Pennsylvania in the 1760s.
Who were Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon?
In 1654, this religious group became the first of their faith to settle in North America at New Amsterdam.
Who were Brazilian Jews?
William Penn's belief that led him to pay Native Americans for their land rather than just taking it.
What is that the land belonged to the Native Americans?
The diverse mix of settlers in New York including these European groups.
Who were the Dutch, Germans, Swedes, Finns, and English?
This 1701 document granted Pennsylvania colonists the right to elect representatives to the legislative assembly.
What is the Charter of Liberties?
Known as pacifists, these religious settlers refused to use force or fight in wars and were often persecuted.
Who were the Quakers?
The New Jersey colony was named after this location where Sir George Carteret was born.
What is the island of Jersey in the English Channel?
The form of government Penn established where "the laws rule, and the people are a party to those laws".
What is a free government?
The estimated number of enslaved Africans in New York by 1664.
What is 300?