USA HISTORY

SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732

THE MIDDLE COLONIES NEW YORK DELAWARE NEW JERSEY PENNSYLVANIA

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who gained control over New Jersey once it became a colony? Choose all that apply.
A
Lord John Berkeley
B
Peter Stuyvesant
C
William Penn
D
Sir George Carteret
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The British split the colony and gave control to two proprietors: Control of the east went to Sir George Carteret and control of the west to Lord John Berkley. Carteret and Berkley later sold the land, but England eventually regained authority of the state.

Detailed explanation-2: -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. In 1664 the Dutch lost New Netherlands when the British took control of the land and added it to their colonies.

Detailed explanation-3: -American colonies He had, at an early date, taken a warm interest in the colonization of America. In recognition of all the help given to him during his exile in Jersey in the 1640s, Charles II gave Carteret a large grant of land previously named New Netherland, which was promptly renamed New Jersey under his charge.

Detailed explanation-4: -On June 24, 1664, only three months after being granted the lands in the New World, the Duke of York gave, what become known as New Jersey, to Lord John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret, two friends and supporters of the king during the English Civil War.

Detailed explanation-5: -King George III’s commission appointing William Franklin as Captain General and Governor in Chief; of New Jersey was discovered and acquired by royal officials in London in 1861, 48 years after Franklin’s death.

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