SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE MIDDLE COLONIES NEW YORK DELAWARE NEW JERSEY PENNSYLVANIA
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Middle colonies attracted a diverse group of European migrants, including Germans, Scots-Irish, French, and Swedish families, along with English migrants. Economics in the colonies: Colonial economies developed based on each colony’s environment.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Middle Colonies were the most ethnically and religiously diverse British colonies in North America with settlers from England, Scotland, Ireland, the Netherlands, and German states. Farm land was both productive and much less expensive than in Europe.
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: -The middle colonies were made up of the colonies of New York, Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The middle colonies had deep, rich soil. The fertile soil was good for farming. These colonies had mild winters and warm summers.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Middle Colonies were the most ethnically and religiously diverse of the thirteen original colonies because of the influence of their Polish, English, Dutch, French and German origins.