COLONY PRESENTATION

1664

NEW Jersey

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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.

Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret.

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Important Information

Region

Geography/Climate

Religion

Economics

Founded

INDEX

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.

Middle colonies

New Jersey

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

• earned money from cattle

Made money off of fur trades

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

Ways Colonists Earned Money

Economics

Geography

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.

Soil

Ritch fertile soils.

Climate

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

Geography & Climate

Middle

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

Religion

• 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.

GOVERNMENT/DOCUMENTS

Royal Colonies were directly owned by the King of England.

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

PEOPLE

Founders- Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret.

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