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THE MIDDLE SHITS
Question | Answer |
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What products did New York produce? | cattle, grain, rum, fish, iron, lumber |
what products did new jersey produce? | cattle, grain, iron, fish |
what products did pennsylvania produce? | cattle, grain, iron, rum, lumber |
what products did delaware produce? | fish |
who owned new york at first? | the dutch |
who got new york after the dutch? | the english |
how did the english get new york? | the dutch gave them to the english without a fight because they didn't care who ruled as long as they made money |
slavery in ny | very common |
what was another name for the middle colonies? | the breadbasket colonies because they sold wheat barley and rye |
what did artisans make? | hardware, clocks, watches, locks, guns, flints, glass, stoneware, nails, and paper |
who did the Duke of York give some land to? | LORD BERKELEY AND SIR GEORGE CARTERET |
proprietary colony | english colony in which the king gave land to proprietors in exchange for a yearly payment |
when did new jersey become a proprietary colony? | 1664 |
what is a royal colony? | a colony under the direct control of the english crown |
when did new jersey become a royal colony? | 1702 |
patroons | owner of a huge estate in a dutch colony |
why were colonists attracted to new amsterdam? | freedom of religioans |
who did king Charles II give new netherland to? | his big boi duke of york |
why did people come to the colonies? | most came to trade furs |
who was william penn? | he found pennsylvania and spoke out for fair treatment of Native Americans |
when did william penn find pennsylvania? | 1681 |
quakers | most despised religious group in england |
what did the quakers believe in? | they believed that all people were equal in God's sight |
what did penn want his colony to be? | wanted his colony to be a model of religious freedom, peace, and christian living |
who came to pennsylvania to escape persecution? | protestants, catholics, and jews |
pennsylvania dutch | german speaking protestants living in pennsylvania |
who were brought to pennsylvania? | AFRICAN SLAVES |
what fraction did african slavse make up in all immigrants between 1730 and 1750? | 1/3 |
What was the capital city of pennsylvania? | philadelphia |
for a time pennsylvania included some langs along the lower delaware river, what was this known as? | pennsylvania's lower counties |
when did penn allow citizens to elect their own assembly? | 1701 |
when did the lower counties break away to form delaware? | 1704 |
cash crops | crops that are sold for money at the market |
What animals did farmers of the Middle colonies raise? | SWAG CATTLE AND PIGS OINK |
what did german settlers develop to heat their homes | german settlers developed wood burning stoves that heated homes |
THIS HAS NO QUESTION SO JUST REMEMBER THE FACT | everything needed for survival was made at home |
who introduced log cabins? | SWEDISH (POODS) SETTLERS |
what did the dutch use to build their homes? | RED bricks |
backcountry | the area of land along the eastern slopes of the appalachian mountaints |
great wagon road | an old Iroquois trail that settlers followed |
how did settlers farm in the backcountry? | THEY CLEARED THE THICK FORESTS |
what did settlers learn from the indians? | they learned how to use knots from pine trees as candles to light their homes |