Dutch Gov & Land
This company governed New Netherlands
What is the Dutch India Company?
Visitors in the 1640s reported hearing about this many languages in New Amsterdam.
What is eighteen languages?
This explorer who first traveled to the new world for France.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
The Dutch West India Company brought the first enslaved Africans to New Amsterdam in this year.
What is 1626?
Under the Dutch, enslaved people sometimes had this legal right, such as bringing cases here.
What is going to court?
This 1629 system gave wealthy investors large estates along the Hudson river.
What is the patroon system?
This was the official church of New Netherland.
What is the Dutch Reformed Church?
The main source of wealth for New France and New Netherland.
What is Fur trade?
This people build roads, houses and ships all through the colonies.
What are the enslaved Native Americans & Africans?
Early on most enslaved people under French rule were this group, rather than Africans.
Who are Native Americans?
This European country took over New Amsterdam.
What is the British?
A law that stated slaves to pay yearly fees in order to get limited freedom.
After 1663, this French king ruled New France through officials he appointed.
Who is Louis XIV?
This 1724 French law for Louisiana controlled the lives of enslaved people and set harsh punishments for running away.
What is Code Noir/Code Black?
The French brought about this many Africans to Louisiana between 1719 and 1743.
What is 6,000?
This colony allowed citizens to have a voice in their government?
What is New Amsterdam?
In 1655, company leaders overruled Stuyvesant and allowed these refugees from Brazil to stay.
What are Jewish Settlers?
The French were converting Native Americans to this religion.
What is Christianity.?
The colony was renamed New York for this Duke, brother of the English king.
Who is the Duke of York?
English laws stated slavery in this kind of status: lasting for a lifetime and passed to children.
What is lifelong and inherited?
Colonists in New Netherland used these formal written requests to try to influence their leaders.
What are petitions?
The pilgrims made the travel to the "New World" for this freedom?
What is religious freedom?
This is the largest area in the New France colonies.
What is Louisiana?
These groups of people were not allowed to vote.
Who are women, children, and slaves?
Running away was one way to resist; the Code Noir punished it with this.
What is death or cutting off ears?