Aim: How did the English start to build an empire in North America? Do Now: What English settlements...
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Middle and Southern Colonies Aim: How did the English start to build an empire in North America? Do Now: What English settlements have we learned about so far?
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Middle and Southern ColoniesAim: How did the English start to build an empire in North America?Do Now: What English settlements have we learned about so far?
Middle and Southern ColoniesAim: How did the English start to build an empire in North America?Do Now: Take out New Netherland worksheet
New England Colonies Continued
Roger Williams – minister who founded the first Baptist church in America
Opposed taking Indian land with force He was forced to leave the colony Founded the colony of Rhode Island
◦ Religious freedom◦ Separation of church and state
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware
Religious freedom Fertile soil and good climate for agriculture
Middle Colonies
Threat to English trade Its location hurt English colonies King’s brother – Duke of York – drives out
Dutch English now have the Colony of New York
New Netherland
Dutch established New Netherland Patroon – person who brought 50 settlers to
New Netherland◦ Received large land grant
Indentured servants
New Netherland
Duke of York gave his two friends part of his land◦ New Jersey
Freedom of religion Representative assembly
New Jersey
Middle and Southern Colonies
Aim: How did the English finish creating the 13 colonies in the South?Do Now: How did the Colonies of Pennsylvania and Delaware come about?
William Penn - Quaker King Charles II owed the Penn family money Gave William land in America
◦ Pennsylvania – “Penn’s woods”
Pennsylvania
Used land as colony for Quakers Religious freedom and equality for all Live in peace with Native Americans Southern counties later become Delaware
colony
Pennsylvania
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
Crops – tobacco, rice, and indigo Long, hot summers
◦ Good for farming
Southern Colonies
Lord Baltimore – creates Maryland for Roman Catholics fleeing persecution
Toleration Act – religious freedom Based on tobacco
Maryland
African slaves Royal colony – ruled by governors appointed
by king Later divided into North and South
Carolinas
James Oglethorpe – founded Georgia as a refuge for debtors
Buffer zone between Spanish Florida 1700s – 13 English colonies
Georgia
