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**List the colonies in your region and who was the founder of the colony: **
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 * **Colonies** ||> New York ||> Pennsylvania ||> New Jersey |||| Delaware ||
 * > **Founders** ||> Peter Minuit ||> William Penn ||> Lord Berkeley ||> Peter Minuit ||

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<span style="color: rgb(32, 10, 178);"><span style="color: rgb(32, 10, 178);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 44, 255);">Description of why these colonies were founded:
The religious ones were Pennsylvania **and** New Jersey. Pennsylvania was founded for the reasons to worship freely,and to have political freedom; and profit from land sales. New Jersey was founded for religious freedom and rights of an assembly. The profit states were New york and Delaware. New york was founded for selling wheat, flour, barley, and oats; growing profits. Delaware was founded for expand trade. So the only things they were founded for was mostly religious freedom and profits.

<span style="color: rgb(32, 10, 178);">List three geographical characteristics of each colony:
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Delaware <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Nearly all of Delaware is on the water. Water covers two-thirds of the coast of Delaware. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The largest river within the state is the Christiana named after Queen Christiana of Sweden.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">New York Nearly all of New York is the Appalachian mountain ranges. Long island New York is surrounded by water.The upper left hand corner of New York is the coldest and iciest part of New York.

Pennsylvania "Penn" is for its founder William Penn. And "sylvania" means woods because there was so many trees. Pennsylvania means Penn's woods.The Pennsylvania Piedmont region is a heavily agricultural section of the Piedmont Plateau located in Eastern Pennsylvania frequently cited as a candidate for extensive ecological preservation. The Piedmont Plateau is a series of low hills and ridges about 60 miles (97 kilometers) in width, it is the eastern edge of the Appalachian Highlands. This is a major farming area.

New Jersey New Jersey shares a coast with the Atlantic Ocean. New Jersey shares a border with Delaware, New York, and Pennsylvania. It was one of the Middle Colonies, named for the Isle of Jersey in the English Channel.

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<span style="color: rgb(32, 10, 178);">**What role did religion play in the development of your region:**
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Middle Colonies of British North America comprised of New York, New Jersey, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Pennsylvania, and Delaware became a stage for the western world’s most complex <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> experience with religious pluralism. The mid-Atlantic region, unlike either <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> New England or the South, drew many of its initial settlers from European states <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> that had been deeply disrupted by the Protestant Reformation and the religious wars <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> that followed in its wake. Small congregations of Dutch Mennonites, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">French Huguenots  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">,  <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> German Baptists, and Portuguese Jews joined larger communions of Dutch Reformed, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Lutherans, Quakers, and Anglicans to create a uniquely diverse religious society. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> African Americans and the __<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Indigenous __<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Indians, with religious traditions of their own, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> added further variety to the Middle Colony mosaic of religions.

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<span style="color: rgb(32, 10, 178);">**Describe slavery in your region or the attitude towards slavery:**
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They were treated as indentured servants. Freed after several years of servitude. Slavery was encouraged in the middle colonies. They bought their slaves from the Dutch traders because the slaves were used to colder weather. There were usually two slaves per household. The slaves <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> were used for coachmen, footmen, and household slaves.

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<span style="color: rgb(32, 10, 178);">What methods did they use to cure or deal with illnesses:
They Had a lot of sicknesses and cures back then, and some of them didn't even realize they had a sickness. And for some there was no cure. [|Here is a link to know more about sicknesses]<span class="wiki_link_new"> and [|Here is a link to know about cures]. We know that when the English came to America, they came with deceases that the indians had no idea what they were and were in no way immune to them. This lead to many of the Indians dying because of diseases

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<span style="color: rgb(32, 10, 178);">**Describe their economic conditions of the region:**
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">New York: Mixed farming, furs <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> - Their amount of money made by these exports would be about £507000 a year. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Delaware: Expand Trade <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">New Jersey: This colony mainly produced sorts of grains and corn. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pennsylvania: The natural produce of this colony mainly consisted of wheat, beef, pork, and lumber.