Middle Colonies
By: Peyton Grupe, Amador
Castro,Gabby Torres, Ellie Kasper,
Ella Dunn, Jaydon Farina, Mya
Stumpf
Colonies In This Region
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New York
New Jersey
Delaware
Pennsylvania
Physical Characteristics
Rich soil for good farming
Lots of hills
Rivers
Forests and wooded areas
How did the geographic resources affect
the economy?
It Affected them from the
climate and they exported
agricultural products and
natural resources.
Government
In the Middle Colonies the people only had one governor. Only one person ruled or
made the rules and civilized all of the middle colonies. Today there is still one person
as president but we have a bunch of state,city,and town governors. We also have
different people who vote on rules but back then only ONE person did all of that. Here
were the some important names on the one position spot and where they were from.
Peter Minuit
1664
New Jersey Colony
Lord Berkeley George Carteret
1682
Pennsylvania Colony
William Penn
culture/society
● William Penn didn’t want money he wanted
the land and to be free
● Quakers-philadelphia people from the
Netherlands and sweden where the first
diverse
Economic Activities
Environment factors that allowed farmers from the
middle colonies to grow cash crops were flat land
that has rich soil and a longer growing season.
THE END
By: Ella Dunn, Gaby Torres, Peyton
Grupe, Mya Stumpf, Ellie Kasper,
Jaydon Farina, Amador Castro