USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Middle Colonies refer to four of the original colonies of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. The Middle Colonies contained a very diverse population. Dutch, English, French, Swedish and German settlers lived together.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first colony was founded at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607. Many of the people who settled in the New World came to escape religious persecution. The Pilgrims, founders of Plymouth, Massachusetts, arrived in 1620. In both Virginia and Massachusetts, the colonists flourished with some assistance from Native Americans.

Detailed explanation-3: -Nowhere was that diversity more evident in pre-Revolutionary America than in the middle colonies of Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware. European ethnic groups as manifold as English, Swedes, Dutch, Germans, Scots-Irish and French lived in closer proximity than in any location on continental Europe.

Detailed explanation-4: -Establishing the New England Colonies. A group of Puritans known as Pilgrims arrived on the Mayflower from England and the Netherlands to establish Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, the second successful English colony in North America following Jamestown, Virginia.

Detailed explanation-5: -The majority of early British settlers were indentured servants, who gained freedom after enough work to pay off their passage. The wealthier men who paid their way received land grants known as headrights, to encourage settlement. The French and Spanish established colonies in Florida, Louisiana, and Texas.