CAS HI 151 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Patroon, Toleration, Quit-Rent
15 Aug 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
We associate plantations and slavery with the south, puritanism and religious beliefs in. New england, but the middle does not have any real identity (besides the quakers in. William penn was perhaps the biggest figure that we associate to the middle us. It"s strange that they are not distinguished because they are very much like. Their ethnic pluralism became central in defining the region"s character. Their seemingly modern nature sprung from the fact that they were from aristocratic areas. The presence of the quakers and other pacifists turned the mid-atlantic into a kind of utopian enterprise. New york was the first mid-atlantic colony founded. The primary settlement was the area right below wall street, in the southern portion of nyc. They navigated and traded along the hudson river. Diverse in terms of ethnicity and religion. New netherlands was founded by the dutch in the mid-1620s. Dutch was the major naval and economic power.
