Ch. 2 Sec. 4: The Middle Colonies Flashcards
began as a Dutch settlement discorved by Henry Hudson
New York
Who establised a very successful fur trade
The Dutch
How much did Peter Minuit purchase Manhattan for?
$24 worth of trinkets and cloth
What did they name the new capital?
New Amsterdam
a person agreed to transport and settle fifty families in exchange for a large tract of land in the New World
patroon
Why did the patroon system fail?
the land was too easy too obtain
Who issued a call to arms but no one answered
Peter Stuyvesant
FIrst Settled by the Swedes and Dutch
New Jersey
What were the two original colonies in New Jersey
East Jersey and West Jersey
Who wrote the “Law, Concessions, and Agreements”
William Penn
The driving force behind the Pennsylvania colony. called the “Holy Experiment”
William Penn
