SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE MIDDLE COLONIES NEW YORK DELAWARE NEW JERSEY PENNSYLVANIA
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Maryland
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New Jersey
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Connecticut
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Detailed explanation-1: -The middle colonies included Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware. Advantaged by their central location, the middle colonies served as important distribution centers in the English mercantile system.
Detailed explanation-2: -It was called New Netherlands. Small trading colonies sprang up where the present towns of Hoboken and Jersey City are located. The Dutch, Swedes, and Finns were the first European settlers in New Jersey. Bergen, founded in 1660, was New Jersey’s first permanent European settlement.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Middle colonies were made up of New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. They were located south of the New England colonies of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.
Detailed explanation-4: -On the western side of the Hudson River, the Dutch West India Company set up a colony where they farmed tobacco and conducted trade with the local Amerindian population. Dutch rule lasted until 1664, when the British took over the colony and renamed it New Jersey after the island of Jersey in the English Channel.