The Middle Colonies were a subset of the Thirteen Colonies in British America, located between the New England Colonies and the Southern Colonies. Along with the Chesapeake Colonies, this area now roughly makes up the Mid-Atlantic states.
Much of the area was part of the Dutch colony of New Netherland until the British exerted their control over the region. The British captured much of the area in their war with the Dutch around 1664, and the majority of the conquered land became the Province of New York. The Duke of York and the King of England would later grant others ownership of the land which would become the Province of New Jersey and the Province of Pennsylvania. The Delaware Colony later separated from Pennsylvania, which was founded by William Penn.
The Middle Colonies had much fertile soil, which allowed the area to become a major exporter of wheat and other grains. The lumber and shipbuilding industries were also successful in the Middle Colonies because of the abundant forests, and Pennsylvania was moderately successful in the textile and iron industries. 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. Later settlers included members of various Protestant denominations, which were protected in the Middle Colonies by written freedom of religion laws. This tolerance was very unusual and distinct from the situation in other British colonies.
The MiddleColonies were a subset of the Thirteen Colonies in British America, located between the New England Colonies and the Southern Colonies. Along...
Island, and Connecticut); the MiddleColonies (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware); and the Southern Colonies (Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina...
These colonies were the historical core of what would become the Southern United States, or "Dixie". They were located south of the MiddleColonies, albeit...
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population of the Thirteen Colonies but less than ten percent of the population of the MiddleColonies and New England Colonies. Though a smaller proportion...
defeated and its colonies were seized by Britain. On the eastern seaboard, the four distinct English regions were New England, the MiddleColonies, the Chesapeake...
Hampshire, as well as a few smaller short-lived colonies. The New England colonies were part of the Thirteen Colonies and eventually became five of the six states...
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Colonies in antiquity were post-Iron Age city-states founded from a mother-city or metropolis rather than a territory-at-large. Bonds between a colony...
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The Genoese colonies were a series of economic and trade posts in the Mediterranean and Black Seas. Some of them had been established directly under the...
England colonies (total population ≈700,000 by 1790) was almost entirely due to the high birth rate (>3%) and low death rate (<1%) per year. The middle colonies'...
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frontier. The overwhelmingly rural Southern Colonies contrasted sharply with the New England and MiddleColonies. After Virginia, the second British colony...
River, with immigrants of Swedes and Finns. Those colonies were absorbed by 1676. The MiddleColonies were scattered west of New York City (established...
This is a list of the governors of colonies, protectorates, or other dependencies in 1701. Where applicable, native rulers are also listed. Mombasa – Nasr...
United Colonies was the name used by the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia to describe the proto-state comprising the Thirteen Colonies in 1775...
The Amana Colonies are seven villages on 26,000 acres (110 km2) located in Iowa County in east-central Iowa, United States: Amana (or Main Amana, German:...
The former Swedish colonies in Asia were: Parangipettai (1733; lost to the French and British East India Companies) By the middle of the 17th century...
Columbus' voyage in 1492, which eventually led to the establishment of colonies and the migration of millions of Europeans to the Americas. The population...
The Province of New Jersey was one of the MiddleColonies of Colonial America and became the U.S. state of New Jersey in 1776. The province had originally...
large colonial molasses trade had grown between the New England and Middlecolonies and the French, Dutch, and Spanish West Indian possessions. Molasses...
local declarations).: 174 Some colonies held back from endorsing independence. Resistance was centered in the middlecolonies of New York, New Jersey, Maryland...
The Middle East (term originally coined in English [see § Terminology]) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey...
resident in Crown colonies either had no representation in local government, or limited representation in a lower house. In several Crown colonies, this limited...
was founded some time around the middle of the 7th century B.C. Sinope was founded with a series of other colonies in the Pontic region: Trebizond, Cerasus...
York, 1760–1790 (1981). Doyle, John Andrew. English Colonies in America: Volume IV The MiddleColonies (1907) online ch 1–6. Fogleman, Aaron. Hopeful Journeys:...
Penn. The Province of Pennsylvania was one of the two major Restoration colonies. The proprietary colony's charter remained in the Penn family until they...
geographic division formerly used in northern Germanic countries and related colonies, which historically was used to divide a larger region into smaller administrative...
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