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In our history readings we have learned about the diversity of the middles colonies, such as Philadelphia.

The middles colonies were given out by the king to some of his loyal friends. These people attempted to control the current settlers in the area, but due to the strong Puritan beliefs of the inhabitants, the governors couldn't set new laws or really do anything that conflicted with their beliefs. Passing the tasks off as impossible, theses governors sold the land to some Quakers, who decided to turn the land into the opposite of the New England colonies, whose strict religious government and laws made it extremely hard for the Quakers to practice their religion. People from all over Europe migrated into these middle colonies. With each person came a different nationality, religion, and craft. With the massive amount of different cultural groups, the middle colonies did not have religiously restricting laws. This greatly benefited the colonies because, with freedom of religion, the inhabitants could focus on work, therefore increasing the productivity of the colonies as a whole. Not only that, but the different cultures opened many new perspectives to the people living there, allowing them to sample many types of religions and cultures. This heterogeneous mixture of peoples created a new loosely governed and massively productive area of the English colonies, and became somewhat of a n example for others. Some smaller regions in the New England and Southern areas began to follow these ideas as well, which spread out into the surrounding colonial section. This caused a change in all of the colonies with strict religious governments because the laws began to loosen, the churches began to spread into different branches, and people became more open to new ideas and cultures.