Middle Colonies
Geography
Geography
The name of the mountain range that extends throught the Middle Colonies?
What is the Appalachian Mountains?
These are Protestant reformers who believe in the equality of "ALL" people. (Women, Natives, Men, Nobles)
Who are the Quakers?
a grant given by a country's leader giving power to a body such as a company, or person to start a colony.
What is a charter?
Middle colonies were given "this name" because they exported so much wheat, barley and rye
What are the Breadbasket colonies?
Name the Middle Colonies and Name the New England Colonies
Middle Colonies: NY, NJ, PA, and DE
New England Colonies: Mass/ME, NH, CT, RI
Name two prominent rivers in the Middle Colonies
What are the Susquehana R., the Delaware R., or Hudson River.
This colony was too far away; Formed as part of Pennsylvania but became a separate colony because they didn't want to send delegates to Pennsylvania
What is Delaware?
A colony under direct control of the English crown
What is a Royal colony?
Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
What are Indentured Servants?
How did the Quakers get along with the Native Americans as compared to the Puritans in the New England Colonies?
Quakers got along well with the Native Americans and formed a peace treaty with them. Puritans had often tense and violent relations with the Native Americans.
What geographic and climatic conditions make the middle colonies ideal for agriculture?
What are a Longer growing season, More mild climate, fertile soil for farming, lower latitudes.
Who founded Pennsylvania and why?
William Penn. For religious freedom for Quakers and other religions.
An English colony in which the king gave land to proprietors in exchange for a yearly payment
What is a Proprietary Colony--be sure to pronounce it correctly
Who did Peter Minuit buy new Amsterdam from?
Native Americans
How were the Middle Colonies and New England colonies similar and different in terms of settling for "religious freedom"?
New England--Puritans and Pilgrims wanted relgious freedom, but only for themselves
Middle Colonies--Quakers wanted a colony where all could worship freely
This river forms part of the border between New York and New Jersey
What is the Hudson River?
What country founded Delaware? What was Delaware's name before being remaned Delaware?
Sweden. New Sweden was the original name.
Describe the idea of "representative government" that was found in the Middle Colonies.
Colonists elected assemblies to make laws and other decisions.
What are Cash Crops? (Wheat, Barley and Rye)
How was agriculture different in each of these regions?
NE--more subsistence farming (80%)
Middle Colonies had more commercial farming--growing cash crops
What is Long Island?
New Netherland was renamed after be taken by this European Country.
What is the England?
Who was the King of England during the time at which the Middle Colonies were settled?
Who is King Charles II?
The central economic activity in the Middle Colonies was centered on ______.
What is agriculture?
Compare the geographic features of the New England Colonies and Middle Colonies and explain how they influenced the economy of each region.
New England had poor soil for farming, as a result they went to the sea for fishing, whaling etc. Middle colonies had fertile soil which led to more commercial farming.
Abundant forrests led to production of lumber for both regions.