Transcript Chapter 3 Sec. 3

Chapter 3 Sec. 3
The Colonies Grow
I. England and the Colonies.
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In 1660 England had two groups of
colonies:
1. The New England colonies run by
private corporations under a royal
charter. They were Mass., New
Hampshire, Conn., and Rhode Island.
2. The royal colonies run by England.
They were Maryland and Virginia.
New England Colonies
Royal Colonies
• England wanted to gain control of the Dutchcontrolled land in between these two groups of
colonies because of its harbor and river trade.
• The Dutch colony was New Netherland. Its main
settlement of New Amsterdam on Manhattan
Island was a center of shipping to and from the
Americas. The Dutch West India Company
gave new settlers who brought at least 50
settlers with them a large estate. These
landowners ruled like kings. They were called
patroons.
• In 1644 the English sent a fleet to attack New
Amsterdam. The governor of New Amsterdam,
Peter Stuyvesant, was unprepared for a battle,
so he surrendered the colony.
• The Duke of York gained control of the colony
and named it New York. He promised the
colonists freedom of religion and allowed the to
hold on to their land.
• The population of New York grew to about 8,000
in 1664. New Amsterdam, now called New York
City, became one of the fastest-growing
locations in the colony.
• The Southern part if New York between
the Hudson and the Delaware Rivers
became New Jersey. Its inhabitants were
diverse in ethnicity and religion, like those
from New York. Without a major port city,
however, it did not make the money the
landowners expected.
• By 1702 New Jersey became a royal
colony, yet it continued to make local laws.
II. Pennsylvania
• William Penn received a large tract of
land in America from the king as a
repayment of a debt. The colony was
Pennsylvania.
• Penn, a Quaker, saw Pennsylvania as a
chance to put Quaker ideas of tolerance
and equality into practice. He designed
the city of Philadelphia and wrote the first
constitution.
Pennsylvania
• To encourage settlers to Pennsylvania, he
advertised the colony throughout Europe in
several languages. By 1683 more than 3,000
English, Welsh, Irish, Dutch, and German people
settled there.
• In 1701 Penn granted the colonists the right to
elect representatives to a legislative assembly.
In 1703 Three Lower Counties formed their own
legislature and became the colony of Delaware.
• The counties functioned as a separate colony
known as Delaware and were supervised by
Pennsylvania’s governor.