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Middle colonies
Timeline for the Middle colonies:
1609
- The Delaware Bay and Hudson River is explored by Henry Hudson.
1610
- The Hudson Bay is discovered by Henry Hudson.
1611
- Henry Hudson die.
1612
- Tobacco planted in Virginia for the first time.
Manhattan for a fur trade center by the Dutch.
1616
- The New England Natives go through a small pox epidemic.
1619
- The first African's come to the New World.
1624
- George Fox, who will found the Society of Friends (Quakers), is born.
1625
- King James I dies. The new king is King Charles I.
Additional Facts:
- The Hornbook is a board shaped like a piece of paper that contained the ABC's lower and uppercase, a piece of scripture such as the Lords Prayer and short syllabic processions. This was used as a sort of textbook that the children used for home school. The wealthy often times decorated the book by using leather and jewels.
- Most of the time, women made stayed home, cooked, educated children, and made clothes.
- The Africans were traded, enslaved and worked by the colonists. They were most populated in the South.