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The capital of Daleware is Dover

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In the Middle Colonies, men wore linen or wool shirts, overcoats and breeches, and women dressed in either linen or wool long dresses, petticoats, aprons, hooded cloaks and white caps. Children of different sexes wore clothes similar to the adults. Men wore boots while women wore leather shoes

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The boys from upper class families were taught be private home tutors and then sent to college or university. Many of the Upper Classes sent their boys abroad to English educational institutions in order to receive a university or college education.
Boys from the middle class, the sons of merchants, ministers, doctors and lawyers, attended dame schools, elementary schools and grammar schools. Only occasionally would they attend college
Limited colonial education -apprenticeships were available to some lower class boys but
Slaves had no education and in the Southern colonies slaves were forbidden by law to learn how to read and write

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The first permanent settlers of Delaware profited from this market. However, the value of kettles, rifles, match-cloth and trinkets was quickly decreasing as the Swedish and Dutch settlers traded these items for valuable cargoes of beaver, otter, bear, mink, deer and other pelts.

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"T" for thief was branded on the light-fingered criminal's hand. - Photo by Dave Doody

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Colonial Williamsburg | The World's Largest Living History Museum

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Experience the largest outdoor educational living museum in the country, through immersive and authentic 18th-century programming for our guests.

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In Delaware, the general feeling was against the increase of slavery, and before 1700, some slaves had been freed. Before the eighteenth century, the people of Delaware relied on the work from Indian slaves rather than African slaves. This stopped at around 1720. African slaves were not used until the Dutch had control of Delaware.

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The Relationship with the Native Americans

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The Relationship with the Native Americans

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The Dutch had a hard time with the Native Americans that lived there. The Dutch fought back, thinking the Native Americans' action of destroying the tin plate was an insult to their mother nation. Delaware tried to use Native Americans as slaves but disease and westward migration diminished the number of Indians of colony.

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Under Delaware
When people broke the law in colonial Delaware the courts ordered swift and often public punishments. Many of these punishments would be strange or harsh to Americans today. Unlike today, jails were used as places to hold people accused of crimes until they were brought to trial. They were not used as places for punishment. However, if the court imposed a fine, but the defendant could not pay, he sometimes spent time in jail until he did pay the fine in full.

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The Delaware Colony did not have one specific religion, which then opened it up to religious freedom for Quakers, Catholics, Jews and more.

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The major physical features in Delaware are the Piedmont Plateau and the Atlantic Coastal Plain. Other geographical features are the  rivers such as Leipsic, St. Jones and Mispillon, as well as forests.

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The Dutch first settled Delaware in 1631, although all of the original settlers were killed in a disagreement with local Indians.

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In 1812 Port Penn was considered the best port in Delaware.

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Delaware was the first state to ratify the United States constitution. It did so on December 7, 1787.

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Delaware, a small Mid-Atlantic U.S. state, sits on a peninsula marked by dune-backed beaches bordering the Atlantic Ocean, Delaware River and Delaware Bay. In Dover, the capital, First State Heritage Park encompasses 18th-century Colonial landmarks like the Georgian-style Old State House. The city of Wilmington is known for the Riverfront, a waterside district of parks, boutiques and restaurants.

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Delaware, a small Mid-Atlantic U.S. state, sits on a peninsula marked by dune-backed beaches bordering the Atlantic Ocean, Delaware River and Delaware Bay. In Dover, the capital, First State Heritage Park encompasses 18th-century Colonial landmarks like the Georgian-style Old State House. The city of Wilmington is known for the Riverfront, a waterside district of parks, boutiques and restaurants.