Geography
These are the four middle colonies.
What are: New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey?
These were the most important crops grown and exported in the Middle Colonies.
What are wheat, rye, and corn?
These were people who left their home countries and came to the colonies to make a new life.
Who are immigrants?
These people were the first to practice religious tolerance in the Middle Colonies.
Who were the Quakers?
This Quaker named Philadelphia the "city of brotherly love".
Who is William Penn?
This type of city was located near the coast and had ample sea access for importing and exporting goods.
What is a port city?
These people were essential to the growing cities as they were skilled craftworkers that helped make items needed by all.
Who were artisans?
This was a major part of colonial social life.
What is religion?
The religious tolerance of the Middle Colonies helped spark changes in how people connected with their faith called this.
What is The Great Awakening?
He created the first militia in the colonies and developed the first fire department.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
These characteristics describe the major rivers of the Middle Colonies and were important for trade and the development of cities.
What are long and deep?
These goods were imported from England to the Middle Colonies.
What are furniture, tea, gun powder, medicine and metals?
These people bought goods from farmers and sold or traded them in port cities.
Who were merchants?
This was the official name of the religious group we know as "the Quakers".
What is The Society of Friends?
This person lived and trained with a skilled master craftsman.
What is an apprentice?
In 1647, this colonist was sent to govern and expand New Netherland.
Who is Peter Stuyvesant?
These goods were produced in the Middle Colonies and exported for profit.
What are salted fish/meats, lumber, and grains/flour.
These three rights were given to the people of Pennsylvania through William Penn's General Assemby laws.
What are freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right to a fair trial by jury.
These groups of people were newly allowed to attend church in the Middle Colonies during The Great Awakening.
Who are the poor, women, and enslaved Africans?
These two cities quickly became the most prosperous port cities in the Middle Colonies.
What are Philadelphia and New York City?
This colony is the southernmost of the Middle Colonies and is where one of the largest rivers begins in this region.
What is Delaware?
These two specific places in a town helped them grow their own economies, adding jobs and attracting more people to live there.
What are mills (lumber or grain) and general stores?
This one word encompasses the lifestyle and core beliefs of the colonists that came to the Middle Colonies.
What is tolerant?
This "new" church, the first of its kind in the colonies, built in NYC in 1730, represented the religious tolerance of the Middle Colonies.
What is a Jewish synagogue?
These two ministers traveled the colonies giving speeches that marked a major change in religious ideas.
Who are Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield?