1. Director General Peter Stuyvesant controlled the colony of New Amsterdam beginning in 1647.
2. Staple crops are items that are always needed, such as wheat and barley.
3. The Quakers supported the equality of men and women before God, religious tolerance, and nonviolence.
4. Pennsylvania was established by William Penn to provide a government that was fair to all people.
5. The economy of the middle colonies depended on the production of staple crops, skilled labor, and trade.
