Chapter 6 Lesson 2 Outline
The Middle Colonies
A. The Dutch colonized the area along the Hudson River and called
this colony
.
1. The Governor of New Netherland,
,
tried to stop the English from taking over the Dutch Colony.
2. He was so unpopular, that the English took over the port and
the rest of the colony
.
3. The English renamed New Netherland
in honor
of King Charles’s brother, the Duke of York.
4. The Duke of York gave part of this land to two of his friends, Sir
George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley. This land became the
colony of
.
B. In 1681, King Charles II of England gave
a
charter to start a colony named
, which means
.
1. The Duke of York gave William Penn the land that would
become
, but it was part of Pennsylvania until 1704.
2. Delaware was the last to join the
.
C. A Quaker named
wanted his colony to be a
place where people could practice their religion freely.
1. The
are a religious group whose nickname
comes from the belief that people should “quake before the
power of the Lord”. They also called themselves the
.
2. George Fox started the Society of Friends in 1652, and he
believed that to know God, they only had to listen to
.
D. The Middle Colonies prospered because of respect and
between the Dutch and the English.
1. The Middle Colonies had many deep
that
they used to send goods to markets.
2. The
helped farms thrive.
3. People called the Middle Colonies the
of
the colonies.
E. William Penn’s settlement was called
which means
in Greek.
1. He planned for Pennsylvania to be a place of
where people would treat each other
, including
the
.
2. William Penn wrote to the Native Americans and said that
everyone could “
“.
3. He even
the Native Americans for their land
and for this reason there was
for many years.