COLONY PRESENTATION

NEW Jersey

1664

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Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret.

New Jersey

• How he founded it
• The colony was founded for religuse freedom.
• Lord Berkeley was a veteran English Civil War and strong supporter of Charles II. Sir George made the island a Royalist stronghold during the English Civil Wars.

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Religion

Founded

Region

Economics

Geography/Climate

Important Information

Middle colonies

New Jersey

Facts

-Middle colonies where known as the "Bread Backet Colonies", they were called that because they all had a lot of wheat. -The New England colonies were known for their severe Puritanism, but the Middle Colonies were known for their tolerance of religious diversity.

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Economics

• Sold a bunch of crops such as: bread. weat, grains, and beans

Ways Colonists Earned Money

Made money off of fur trades

• earned money from cattle

• Last way they earned money was from all sorts of algircultule indistreis

Geography & Climate

Middle

Climate

Soil

Geography

mild climate with warm summers and mild winters that were suited to farming and agriculture

Ritch fertile soils.

Mountains, Atlantic coastal plain, The general geography of the Middle Colonies had a mix of the New England and Southern features but had fertile soil and land that was suited to farming.

Religion

The middle colonies had religuse freedome. The main religions where Quakers, Catholics, Lutherans, Jews and others

• The middle colonies where formed to give colonest religuse freedom, so there where many different ones. Religuse freedom also made it to whhere politicks where no longer incorperatde with religion.

Important Info

GOVERNMENT/DOCUMENTS

Royal Colonies were directly owned by the King of England.

PEOPLE

Founders- Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret.

PICTURE ABOVE OF ONE OF THE ITEMS

EVENTS \ Bergen, now Jersey City, becomes the first permanent town in New Jersey

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