Ch 2.4 Settlement of Middle and Southern Colonies

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Ch 2.4 Settlement of Middle and Southern Colonies

• MAIN IDEA
• The founding of the Middle and Southern colonies
  provided settlers with many economic
  opportunities.

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WHY IT MATTERS NOW

• America is still a place where immigrants seek
  freedom and economic opportunity.

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New Netherland

• Dutch India Company colonizes, 1621.
• Settlers from other countries and Africa
  welcomed.
• Dutch trade for furs with Native Amer.

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English Takeover

• In 1664, Duke of York becomes proprietor of New
  Netherland.
• -Renamed colony New York
• -Later gives part of the land to friends, names
  it New Jersey
• -Religious freedom.

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Penns Holy Experiment

• In 1681, William Penn founds Pennsylvania on the
  Quaker principles.
• Quakers ideas equality, cooperation, religious
  toleration, and pacifism.
• -Adult males given 50 acres, right to vote.
• -Representative assembly
• -Freedom of religion
• Native people treated fairly 50 years without
  conflict.

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Thriving Colony

• Penn recruits immigrants, 1000s of Germans come.
• Quakers become minority slavery is introduced.
• Allowed Delaware own assembly broke off.

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Southern Colonies

• Cash Crops Tobacco, Rice, Indigo.
• Lord Baltimore, a Catholic, founds Maryland in
  1632.
• -allows religious freedom.
• Carolinas are founded by settlers from Barbados
  and built Charles town, (Charleston) in 1670.
• James Ogelthorpe founds Georgia as a haven for
  debtors.
• By 1752, there are 13 British Colonies in the
  North America.