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THE MIDDLE SHITS
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |