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===Mid-Atlantic Region===  

===Mid-Atlantic Region===  

Unlike New England, the Mid-Atlantic Region gained much of its population from new immigration, and by 1750, the combined populations of [[New York]], [[New Jersey]], and [[Pennsylvania]] had reached nearly 300,000 people. By 1750, about 60,000 [[Scots-Irish]] and 50,000 [[German Americans|Germans]] came to live in British North America, many of them settling in the Mid-Atlantic Region. [[William Penn]], the man who founded the colony of Pennsylvania in 1682, attracted an influx of [[Quakers]] and other immigrants with his policies of religious liberty and freehold ownership. "Freehold" meant that farmers owned their land free and clear of leases. The first major influx of immigrants came mainly from Ireland]] and consisted of Scots-Irish [[Church of Scotland|Presbyterians]]. The second major immigration came with Germans trying to escape the religious conflicts and declining economic opportunities in Germany and Switzerland.  

Unlike New England, the Mid-Atlantic Region gained much of its population from new immigration, and by 1750, the combined populations of [[New York]], [[New Jersey]], and [[Pennsylvania]] had reached nearly 300,000 people. By 1750, about 60,000 [[Scots-Irish]] and 50,000 [[German Americans|Germans]] came to live in British North America, many of them settling in the Mid-Atlantic Region. [[William Penn]], the man who founded the colony of Pennsylvania in 1682, attracted an influx of [[Quakers]] and other immigrants with his policies of religious liberty and freehold ownership. "Freehold" meant that farmers owned their land free and clear of leases. The first major influx of immigrants came mainly from Ireland and consisted of Scots-Irish [[Church of Scotland|Presbyterians]]. The second major immigration came with Germans trying to escape the religious conflicts and declining economic opportunities in Germany and Switzerland.  

====Ways of life====

====Ways of life====