Chapter 6 Section 2: The Middle Colonies

1. What are the 4 Middle Colonies? Chapter 6 Section 2:The Middle Colonies

2. 1 The people in the Middle Colonies were more varied in background than those in New England.

3. 2 Cash crops included wheat and other grains, and beef and pork.

4. 3 Because they produced so much grain, the Middle Colonies became known as the “Breadbasket Colonies”.

5. 4 Two key port cities were Philadelphia and New York City.

6. 5 In New York State tenant farmers worked the lands of wealthy patroons.

7. 6 An upper class of wealthy merchant families grew up in New York and Philadelphia.

8. 7 The two largest cities in the Middle Colonies were Philadelphia and New York City. A third city, Baltimore, grew quickly.

9. 8 Most people belonged to one of several Protestant denominations. A minority were Roman Catholics or Jews.

10. 9 The German custom of barn raising along with sheepshearing, cornhusking, and butchering were events that settlers often shared.

11. 10 Children in the Middle Colonies were educated by private tutors, or at private schools or charity schools.

12. 11 In the 1600’s the frontier of the Middle Colonies was the eastern foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.

13. 12 Frontier families developed a spirit of independence and equality because of the common dangers and hardships they faced.

14. 13 Unlike the cities, few social class distinctions were common in the frontier.