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Middle Colonies against the New England and Southern colonies

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Middle Colonies against the New England and Southern colonies

Hi there I really need help on this presentation for American History and I've been doing the subject about arguing that the Middle colonies are the best to live in rather than the other two colonies. In this presentation I need to talk about the geography, society, religion and government. These are the notes I have now by searching the forums:
- The middle colonies were founded in order to have religious freedom
- Had heavy grain exports of grain
- Has better education than the southern colonies
- More social, diverse, and economic democracy
- There was human freedom, farming, lumbering, ship building, ship trade, fur trade
- They were big on farming due to the grain exports
- The middle colonies have many fertile soil for their farms

These are basically the notes I have and I need some ideas on how to expand on it as I divide it into the subtopics. For example I'm not sure if the middle colonies had all of it as flat land for farming or there were some mountainous regions in places like the new york state because they were near the appalachian mountains. (sorry haven't been researching much on the internet just relying on my textbook with not a lot of maps) anyways if you can please help me with any suggestions, corrections or notes into why they're the best it would be greatly appreciated :) . Also i didn't choose to go for the middle colonies it was chosen at random by the teacher...........

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Examples of Middle colonies are New York, Pennsylvania (an advertising colony, ), New Jersey, and Delaware.
The health/environment is not too cold or hot which stop the disease from spreading.
They have no establish church. Pilgrims were original Puritan seperatist. Pilgirms are a distinct groups of Puritans and are again Anglican church(est church) and call for complete separation from it. Pilgrims have Congregationalism. Have Mayflower Compact by Pilgrims colony.Quakers in Penn had conflict with George Keith in 1690. It is consider a religious haven for Quakers in Penn.
Penn's Quakers believe in 'inner lights' to be level with God and they started as a strong gov, they had no starving time like other colonies when starting out.
Important figures are William Penn (a Quaker, discover Penn.), Duke of York (discover New York, and he sent George Carteret and Lord Berkeley giving them 1 2 properties of New Jersey.), and George Keith (a Quaker,discover Maine, he attacks Indian and he was significant in decline of Quakers.)
Their purpose of settlement included wanting religious freedom and they had success with pluralism. They had remnants from Dutch and Swedes- Easter eggs, Santa Claus, skating, bowling, long cabins...
Economic development-they were originally New Netherlands, and were most ethnically and religiously diverse of the 13 colonies because of the English, Dutch, French, and German origin. They were more of the agriculture than New England colonies. They were call"bread colonies" because of their large grain exports.
Had primogeniture-land pass down to eldest son of family,

The argument you amy use again other colonies are that....
New England have diseases. Other colonies are more religious tolerant.....can't seem to think anymore

Those are all notes I have on it, may have more, but that should be enough SFI (specific factual information) for the presentation, the more SFI you have the best. Don't know how you have to do the presentation but hope this helps. Sorry that these are not the most perfect and organize descriptions, wish I can give you more of an argument for it than all this but my body is tired for now. I will check back later is you got any q, I may not know/remember everything though, even though I work hard and had sleepless nights I am not a genius and not that smart. Well, hope to see you online soon. ^_^

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Three letters..... WOW honestly i didnt think a person would write so much!!! Thank you so much anyways this is plenty to expand on i wish i had done the same with your essay :( but i did just read your post and i'm happy for you that you did good on your essay, all i can do now for you is pray and hope that you'll have a good grade on the essay. Now you're also my role-model for working harder and harder for my presentation. I'm just awed that you'd only have 2 hr sleeps and i can't last that long. Thank you so much for the answer again now i have alot to think about and expand on my presentation post some more questions while i do alot more researching.
PS: thank you especially for the reminder about the SFI there were two presentations today and my teacher was pissed at the quality of the notes that they weren't specific. thanks for the suggestions and i'll expand as much as i can now

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I am so relief after your reply, this is my first time helping someone online concerning class work. You just made my day with your reply somehow, I felt happy. ^_^ It is weird how at first I was looking for help with my essay (glad that is over) and I turns out to be helping someone else, but I feel great, don't mind doing it again. Work hard and think smart! I will also pray that you will have a good presentation, I will look forward to your q if you have any more.
P.S. Your welcome and thanks for your consideration and reply in my thread. :)

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No problem sometimes it's fun answering questions and doing responses on forums I do it a lot on anime websites and other websites when I have a lot of free time and they are very fun with some forum games. Anyways I have to questions and this may be do to not paying attention probably:
- can you confirm that Connecticut was part of the middle colonies because in my textbook it says that only delaware, Penn, NY, NJ were the only colonies part of the middle colonies
- was maine too?

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I love anime, I watch them when I have the time. Sorry about that, Conn and Maine are part of New England, sorry about the Conn part, I just took that out of the post.

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It's alright don't worry about that I was just comparing my textbook at that time and I saw that particular note. Sorry for the late reply just hard at work with english and american history my heaviest subjects right now. I LOVE anime but I hardly ver have time to just chill and watch it so I usually watch 1 episode at least a week especially on Friday nights when I can.

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