The Middle Colonies were comprised of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and New York, but New York also shared ownership of what is now Vermont with New Hampshire. Many different ethnic groups lived in the Middle Colonies such as Scottish, Swedish, Dutch, English, Germans, and French. The Middle colonies were taken by England, because England already controlled the south and the northern colonies and they wanted the whole area. The Middle Colonies had very fertile soil, which they used to grow crops. No one faith dominated the Middle Colonies, the colonies were made up of Quakers, Lutherans, Calvinists, and Presbyterian. The Middle Colonies were mostly proprietary colonies, and the proprietary colonies were New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
