Bellringer 9-08-10 1. List section please…. Middle Colonies What: Colonies that later become New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware When:

Bellringer 9-08-10

1. List section please…

Middle Colonies

What: Colonies that later become New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware

When: mid-1600s

Significance: The various nationalities that settled this region bring diversity to America

Southern Colonies

What: Colonies that later become Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia

When: early 1600s – early 1700s

Significance: The colonies help our nation develop agriculturally

Restoration Colonies

1. Describe the development of the Carolinas, New York, and New Jersey.

I. Restoration Colonies

A. New York1. Hudson and Dutch claim it in 1614 – New Netherlands2. Difficulties growing

a. 1646 – 1500 compared to 25,000 in NE3. To increase size, Dutch open colony

a. 10,000 from all over Europeb. Led to diversity and tolerance

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4. King Charles II (Eng) wants to close gap between NE and Chesapeake

a. Sends brother James (Duke of York)

b. Four naval ships take over colony

c. Treat Stuyvesant and Dutch well

d. Renamed New York

I. Restoration Colonies

B. New Jersey1. NY too large to manage2. James divides southern part

a. George Carteret and John Berkeley received land

3. To attract settlers – offer . . .a. landb. religious freedomc. rep assembly

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4. Carteret and Berkeley sold land

a. Land changed hands a lot and property lines were inaccurate

b. King joins land – makes New Jersey in 1702

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C. The Carolinas1. Charles II gives land to eight proprietors in 1663

a. Reward for regaining throneb. Land developed differently

2. Southa. This was their true interestb. Barbados planters come to grow sugarcane

I. Restoration Colonies

c. Sugarcane won’t grow, so they grow rice and use slavesd. Main city was Charles Town

3. Northa. Develops very slowly

i. Not good for transportationii. Coast not suited for shipping

b. Eventually many small tobacco plantations are settled