Middle/Southern Colonies

William Penn

A Quaker that founded Pennsylvania to establish a place where his people and others could live in peace and be free from persecution.

Royal Colony

A colony under the direct control of a monarch

James Oglethorpe

British general, Member of Parliament, philanthropist, and founder of the colony of Georgia. As a social reformer, he hoped to resettle Britain's poor, especially those in debtors' prisons, in the New World.

Proprietary Colony

English colony in which the king gave land to proprietors in exchange for a yearly payment

Patroon

Person that brought 50 settlers to New Netherland. As a reward, the person that brought the settlers got a land reward

Quakers

Protestant reformers who believe in the equality of all people

Peter Stuyvesant

The governor of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, hated by the colonists. They surrendered the colony to the English on Sept. 8, 1664.

Duke of York

brother to King Charles II and founder of New York that drove the Dutch out of New Netherland