Dutch Colony
British Colony
Peter Stuyvesant
Systems
Other
100
This is the name of the new COLONY created by the Dutch.
What is New Netherlands?
100
This is the brother of the British King who took over New Netherlands and named the colony after himself.
Who is James, the Duke of York?
100
Stuyvesant's solution to the problem of people dangerously riding too fast through the city streets.
He made a law that horses and carts must be walked through the city streets. They could only ride on Broadway but with a speed limit.
100
This is a person who wants to go to the New World, but can't afford it. So an employer pays for their boat trip and they work for that employer until they pay it off. Then they are FREE.
What is an indentured servant?
100
This is a term for a place that GRinds GRain into flour. Frederick Philippse owned one.
What is a gristmill?
200
This is the name of the new CITY created by the Dutch in the New World.
What is New Amsterdam?
200
This is the first BRITISH governor of New York.
Who is Richard Nicolls?
200
This is Stuyvesant's solution to the problem of fighting in the streets.
What are closing taverns at 9:00 PM and fining people for fighting?
200
This is where a person rents land from a manor owner. They pay their rent in crops.
What is tenant farming?
200
This is a term for a large piece of land owned by a wealthy land owner.
What is a manor?
300
This was the FIRST governor of New Netherlands.
Who is Peter Minuit?
300
This is the term for someone who lives in a colony.
What is a colonist.
300
These are organizations Stuyvesant helped create to help people.
What are hospitals, schools, and orphanages?
300
This is the system created by the Dutch West India Company where the Dutch West India Company would give a large amount of land to someone who could bring over 50 settlers to New Netherlands. The settlers had to pay rent of crops and livestock.
What is the Patroon System?
300
The explorer who sailed for the Netherlands and claimed the land that later became New Netherlands.
Who is Henry Hudson?
400
Peter Minuit bought this land from the Lenni Lenape for beads, cloth, and weapons equivalent to $24.
What is Manhattan Island?
400
This person was found not guilty during a trial for printing material making fun of the current governor. This created Freedom of the Press where you had the right to print true things, even if they are mean.
Who is John Peter Zenger?
400
This is an organization Stuyvesant created that helped with safety.
What is the rattle watch (police and firemen)?
400
This is where a person from Africa was forced over to the New World. They are treated as property and sold to a master. They work for no pay and are NEVER free.
What is slavery?
400
Name one unfair thing Peter Stuyvesant did that the Dutch West India Company said he must allow.
What is he didn't want people to practice different religions?
500
This is a group of businessmen who ran the colony of New Netherlands. They also started the Patroon System.
What is the Dutch West India Company?
500
This is the governor that threw John Peter Zenger in jail for making fun of him in his newspaper.
Who is William Cosby?
500
The Dutch were forced to surrender to the British. Name one reason colonists begged Stuyvesant to surrender.
What is they did not have enough weapons and gunpowder, their cannons were rusty, the fort was crumbling, and/or the British had an excellent Navy.
500
He is a wealthy manor owner who owned a manor of 160,000 acres. An average tenant farm on his manor was 84 acres.
Who is Robert Livingston? (or Frederick Philipse)
500
Name one reason that the British wanted to take over New Netherlands from the Dutch.
What is because then the British would have control of the entire East Coast (Atlantic Coast). It would connect the New England Colonies with the Southern colonies.
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