Middle Colony New Jersey

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Middle Colony New Jersey

• Founded in 1664
• Founded by John Berkeley and George Carteret
• Presented By Angelica Garduque and Truman Silberg

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Climate Geographical Characteristics

• The glaciers that had scooped up the soil from
  New England stopped in the Middle Colonies.
• It is a very good farming region.
• It had about half a year for farming time and the
  other was winter and fall.

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Religious Beliefs

• They had self-government.
• They offered free land and said that newcomers
  could worship as they pleased.
• It attracted many different types of people
  Puritans form New England and Quakers from
  England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.

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Government

• The proprietors also allowed colonists to elect
  representatives to an assembly.
• The assembly helped the governor and the council
  make laws, but it did not have much powers.

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Education

• Many young people who lived in towns and cities
  became apprentices.
• As a child, an apprentice often lived in the
  masters house.
• Apprentices usually worked with their masters for
  four to seven years.
• Boy apprentices learned skills such as
  shoemaking, printing, and bookmaking.
• Girl apprentices learned how to spin thread and
  weave cloth.
• Most children learned how to read and write, but
  many colonists believed that is was most
  important for children to learn useful work
  skills.

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Houses

• First, they cleaned small chimneys with brooms.
• Tall chimneys you would not believe it! They
  would drop a chicken or a goose down their
  chimney and the chicken or gooses wings would
  flutter and get rid of the soot in their chimney.
  
• Windows on houses were made of glass and glass
  was expensive so their windows were small.
• Some colonists used paper soaked in linseed for
  their windows (linseed is a yellowish oil made
  from flaxseed).
• Colonists houses had a giant fireplace to heat
  the rooms. A fire was kept burning in the
  fireplace though most of the day, and the chimney
  was quickly clogged with soot.

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Agriculture/Manufacturing

• Colonists in New Jersey did ironworking and
  lumbering.
• Farmers used many different grains such as wheat,
  corn, and barley.
• They used so much grain for bread that they
  became known as the breadbasket of the thirteen
  colonies.

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Towns/cities

• Young people were apprentices who were people who
  learned from their masters.
• They lived with their masters for four to seven
  years.
• Boy apprentices learned skills such as
  shoemaking, printing, and, bookmaking.
• Girls learned skills such as how to spin thread
  and weave cloth. Most children in the Middle
  Colonies learned how to write and read, but many
  colonists believed that it was most important for
  children to learn useful work skills.

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Reason For Settlement

• The reason they found this is to make money.
• They decided to divide the fertile land into
  smaller pieces and sell or rent the pieces to
  colonists to farm for money.

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Other interesting Facts

• New Jersey was named after the Isle of Jersey in
  England.
• It was the second Middle Colony to become a
  state.

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Important people to know

• John Berkeley, George Carteret, and James Duke
  of York