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MIDDLE ATLANTIC - TIMELINE AND GEOGRAPHY

//The geography affected the economy because these colonies were located by the Atlantic Ocean. The colonies made money by fishing, having industries and trading.// //1621-Dutch West India Company took control of the trading posts in the Hudson River. // // 1646-Peter Stuyvesant was appointed as director general. // //1682-William Penn wrote the Frame of Government of Pennsylvania. // //1730’s-1740’s- the Great Awakening(a movement that calls for rebirth of religious ways of life) happened. // //17 32-Benjamin Franklin published Poor Richard’s Almanac // //I think it is because if these events did not happen,then the American Revolution will not happen. And if the American Revoltion did not happen,then the United States would not even exist! I don't know what will happen if it does not exist// //but I do know that there will still be segregation. And if there is still segregation,I do not know how my family and I would// //be living here today.//
 * 1. Upload a map of the Middle Atlantic colonies.**
 * 2. Identify and label each colony.**
 * 3. How did the geography of Middle Atlantic affect the colony's economy?**
 * 4. Create a timeline of 5 important events in the Middle Atlantic during the Colonial times.**
 * 5. Why do you think these events you chose are important for the Middle Atlantic during Colonial times?**

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