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 * Section 3 – Middle Colonies **

**I. England and the Colonies **//(Pages 82-84) //

**A. **In 1660 England had two groups of colonie s :

**1. **The New England colonies run by private corporations und e r a royal charter . They were Mas s achu s <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">etts <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">, <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Ne <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">w <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Is <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">land.

**<span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">2. **<span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The (1) colonie <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">s <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">run b <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">y <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">England. The <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">y <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">were Mar <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">y <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">land <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">a <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">nd Virginia.

**<span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">B. **<span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">England wanted to gain control of the Dutch <span style="color: #010001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">controlled land in between these two groups of colonies because of its (2) and ri <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">v <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">er trade.

**<span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">C ****<span style="color: #010001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">. ** <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The Dutch colon <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">y w <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">as (3). Its main settlement of Ne <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">w <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Amsterdam on Manha <span style="color: #010001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">t <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">tan Island was a center of shipping to and f <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">r <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">om the Americas. The Dutch West India Compan <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">y <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">ga <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">v <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">e new settler <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">s w <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">ho brought at l <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">e <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">a <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">s <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">t 50 <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">s <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">ettler <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">s <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">with th <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">e <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">m a large <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">e <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">state <span style="color: #010001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">. <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">These landowners gained riverfront estates and ruled like kings <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">. <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">y <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">wer <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">e <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> called (4).

**<span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">D. **<span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">In 1644 th <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">e <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">English sent a fleet to attack Ne <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">w <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Amsterdam. Th <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">e <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">go <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">v <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">ernor of New Amsterdam, (5), was unprepared for a battle, so he surrendered the colon <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">y.

**<span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">E. **<span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The Duke of York gained control of the colon <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">y <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">and named it (6) <span style="color: #010001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">. <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">He promised the colonists freedom of religion and allowed them to hold on to their land. <span style="color: #7e7a81; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">:

**<span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">F. **<span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> The population of Ne <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">w <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">York gre <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">w <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">to <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">a <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">bout 8,000 in 1 <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">6 <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">64. Ne <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">w A <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">msterdam, no <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">w <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">called Ne <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">w <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">York Cit <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">y, <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">became one of the fastest <span style="color: #010001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">- <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">growing locations in the colon <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">y <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">.

**<span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">G. **<span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Th <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">e <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">southern part of New York bet <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">w <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">een the Hudson and the Delawa <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">r <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">e Ri <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">v <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">er <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">s <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">became (7) <span style="color: #010001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">. <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Its inhabitant <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">s w <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">er <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">e <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">di <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">v <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">er <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">s <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">e in <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">e <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">thni <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">c <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">it <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">y <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">and religion, like those from New Yo <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">r <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">k <span style="color: #010001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">. <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Without a major port or city <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">, <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">howe <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">v <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">er <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">, <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">it did not make the mon <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">ey <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">the landowners expected.

**<span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">H. **<span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">B <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">y <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">1702 N <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">e <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">w Jers <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">ey <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">became a ro <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">y <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">al colon <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">y, y <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">et it continued to make local laws <span style="color: #161617; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">.

**<span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">II. Pennsylvania **//<span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">(Page 84) //

**<span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">A. **<span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">William Penn received a large tract of land in America from the king as a repa <span style="color: #171718; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">y <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">ment of a debt. The colony was (8).

**<span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">B. **<span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Penn, a Quaker, saw Pennsylvania as a chance to put the (9) ideas of tolerance and equality into practice. He designed the city of (10) and wrote the first constitution.

**<span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">C. **<span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">To encourage settlers to Penns <span style="color: #171718; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">y <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">lvania <span style="color: #171718; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">, <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">he advertised the colony throughout Europe in several languages. By 1683 more than 3,000 English, Welsh, Irish, Dutch, and German people settled there.

**<span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">D. **<span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">In 1701 Penn granted the colonists the right to elect representati <span style="color: #171718; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">v <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">es to a legislati <span style="color: #171718; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">v <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">e assembly. In 1703, Three Lower Counties formed their own legislature and became the colony of (11).

**<span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">E. **<span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">The counties functioned as a separate colony known as Delaware and were supervised by Pennsylvania's governor.

**<span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Discussion Question ** <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Why was religious toleration and equalit <span style="color: #171718; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">y <span style="color: #000001; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">important to the settlers of Pennsylvania?