The Middle Colonies

The Middle Colonies

• New Netherlands: founded by Henry Hudson (Hudson River)
  • Divided their lands into bigger than NE Manors but smaller than the Southern Plantations
  • Very Cosmopolitan, had lots of cultures in one place china town etc
  • Fur Trading Dutch West India Company
  • Dutch Reform Church very intolerant of Quakers
• New Sweden: contributed almost nothing except for log cabins
• New York
  • Peter Stuyvesant: bloodless revolution, New York from Dutch's possession to England's
  • Peter Kalm: first environmentalist
• Pennsylvania- Proprietary
  • William Penn jr: advertised religious toleration, great soil "fair" with indians
  • while they were drawing the mason Dixon line was how Delaware was created
  • Philadelphia- had great city planning
  • Fight between the Quakers and the Paxton boys (Scotts-Irish). The Paxton boys followed the mountain line down and est. the Moravian Church
• New Jersies (E and W) Proprietary
  • King William (as in William and Mary) put the two tg in about the 1700s
• Economy in general
  • Economy: bread colonies plus fur, trade, and shipbuilding
  • Slavery: in 1741 in NYC the poor whites and the blacks started burning the city. The English said to the poor whites, "Hey at least you're not black."
  • Life Expectation was about 60-65
  • The social life was fairly fluid bc jobs and more access to land
  • Education and Intellectual life: Parochial school is a school sponsored by a church, apprenticeships
    • Freedom of the Press- John Peter Zenger
  • Demographics: is a melting pot