Middle Colonies

Come here and you can buy a island

The Middle Colonies

By Elizabeth C.

Geography

Here is why you should live in the middle colonys because we have long hot summers unlike New England.

flax

iron

Hudson River

corn fields

In the middle colonys have deep rivers, iron, wheat, corn, rye, hemp,and flax.

The Reason for Founding

Duke of York

The middle colonys are so much better than the southern colonys becuase they cant hunt there and we can here.

New York was started for the fur trade and for more colonist. The reason why they had to do that was because New England was filled up with people.

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The reason for founding New York and Pennsylvania was because of religious freedom. William Penn got kicked out of Massachusetts. He came with other colonists to start Pennsylvania. He started Penn witch is now one of the ivy league schools.

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economy

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People make money by hunting beavers, mining, farming ,and sailors.

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The middle colony's are so much better because when you step out your doors you can hunt beavers unlike the southern colony's were you have to wait weeks for tobacco to grow.

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FUN FACTS

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New York was originally belonged to the dutch then they sold it to the english. They had named the colony New Netherlands but the got change to New York.

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The dutch bought Manhattan for $25 from the Indians. Now Manhattan is worth over a billion dollars.

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Penn university was the first teaching hospital.

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At Penn university they let people with any religion. On like Harvard were they only had puritans.

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Manhattan

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Philadelphia

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