PENNSYLVANIA, NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY, DELAWAREPENNSYLVANIA, NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY, DELAWARE

VUS 2-3 PART 4 VUS 2-3 PART 4

***Settlement OF Middle Colonies

• SETTLED CHIEFLY BY THE GERMAN,DUTCH, AND ENGLISH IMMIGRANTS SEEKING RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY

***MIDDLE COLONIES-***MIDDLE COLONIES-ReligionsReligions

***MIDDLE COLONIES-***MIDDLE COLONIES-ReligionsReligions

Religious misfits from other colonies.

Home to multiple religious groups who generally believed in religious tolerance, including Quakers in Pennsylvania, Huguenots (French Protestants) and Jews in New York, and Presbyterians in New Jersey

He received agrant from king toestablish a colony.

Named Pennsylvania Paid Indians for land. Quakers did not believe in war

***William Penn-***William Penn-QUAKER LEADERQUAKER LEADER***William Penn-***William Penn-QUAKER LEADERQUAKER LEADER

***MIDDLE COLONIES ECONOMIES

• SHIPBUILDING• SMALL SCALE FARMING• TRADING• **Large seaports and commercial centers-NEW YORK,NY and PHILDADELPHIA,PA

• The Middle Colonies had more flexible social structures than New England or the Southern Colonies.

• They began to develop a middle class of skilled artisans, entrepreneurs, and small farmers.

Social Structure

***PHILADELPHIA,PA

• THIS WOULD BECOME THE LARGEST CITY IN ALL OF

THE COLONIES

**SOCIAL STRUCTURES-MIDDLE COLONIES

• BELIEVED IN RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE• MORE FLEXIBLE SOCIAL STRUCTURES-

DEVELOPED A MIDDLE CLASS OF:• SKILLED ARTISANS, BUSINESS

OWNERS(ENTREPRENEURS) AND

SMALL FARMERS

**POLITICAL LIFE OF MIDDLE COLONIES

• Middle Colonies incorporated a number of democratic principles that reflected the basic rights of Englishmen

CHARACTERISTICS OF ALL THE COLONIES

CHARACTERISTICS OF ALL THE COLONIES

APPLIED TO SOUTHERN, NEW ENGLAND, AND THE MIDDLE

COLONIES

APPLIED TO SOUTHERN, NEW ENGLAND, AND THE MIDDLE

COLONIES

ALL COLONIES BELIEVED IN THE FOLLOWING• STRONG BELIEF IN PRIVATE

OWNERSHIP OF PROPERTY

• FREE ENTERPRISE

***CHARACTERISTICS OF ALL COLONIES

• ALL OF THE COLONIES HAD SMALL SCALE SUBSISTENCE FARMING AS ONE OF THEIR ECONOMIES

• ALL COLONIES HAD SEAPORTS-WHICH WERE THE BIGGEST CITIES IN THE REGION

***She had no legal rights to buy and sell ***She had no legal rights to buy and sell propertyproperty. Under husband’s rule. Few taught . Under husband’s rule. Few taught to read-except the Bible.to read-except the Bible.Multiple pregnancies close togetherMultiple pregnancies close togetherMany WOMEN DIED IN CHILDBIRTH. Many WOMEN DIED IN CHILDBIRTH.

***She had no legal rights to buy and sell ***She had no legal rights to buy and sell propertyproperty. Under husband’s rule. Few taught . Under husband’s rule. Few taught to read-except the Bible.to read-except the Bible.Multiple pregnancies close togetherMultiple pregnancies close togetherMany WOMEN DIED IN CHILDBIRTH. Many WOMEN DIED IN CHILDBIRTH.

COLONIAL WOMEN’S LIVESCOLONIAL WOMEN’S LIVES

**GEOGRAPHY OF COLONIES

**GEOGRAPHY OF COLONIES

• WESTERN BOUNDARY OF COLONIES -THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS

• WESTERN BOUNDARY OF COLONIES -THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS

****FIRST-GREAT AWAKENINGFIRST-GREAT AWAKENING****FIRST-GREAT AWAKENINGFIRST-GREAT AWAKENING

• SWEPT BOTH EUROPE AND THE SWEPT BOTH EUROPE AND THE COLONIES IN THE MID 1700SCOLONIES IN THE MID 1700S

• RAPID GROWTH OF EVANGELICAL RAPID GROWTH OF EVANGELICAL RELIGIONS (RELIGIONS (BAPTIST,METHODIST)BAPTIST,METHODIST)

• CHALLENGED THE ESTABLISHED CHALLENGED THE ESTABLISHED GOVERNMENTAL AND RELIGIOUS GOVERNMENTAL AND RELIGIOUS ORDERSORDERS

• WOULD LAY SOCIAL FOUNDATIONS WOULD LAY SOCIAL FOUNDATIONS FOR THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONFOR THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

• SWEPT BOTH EUROPE AND THE SWEPT BOTH EUROPE AND THE COLONIES IN THE MID 1700SCOLONIES IN THE MID 1700S

• RAPID GROWTH OF EVANGELICAL RAPID GROWTH OF EVANGELICAL RELIGIONS (RELIGIONS (BAPTIST,METHODIST)BAPTIST,METHODIST)

• CHALLENGED THE ESTABLISHED CHALLENGED THE ESTABLISHED GOVERNMENTAL AND RELIGIOUS GOVERNMENTAL AND RELIGIOUS ORDERSORDERS

• WOULD LAY SOCIAL FOUNDATIONS WOULD LAY SOCIAL FOUNDATIONS FOR THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONFOR THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION