European Explorers
This man was the first European to discover America.
Christopher Columbus
This man was the last Dutch governor of New Amsterdam.
Peter Stuyvesant
Which European country/group originally owned New Jersey?
The Dutch/the Netherlands
Which European country captured New Jersey from the Dutch?
England/Britain
This is a place that is settled, owned, or ruled by another country.
A colony
This man was sent by the Dutch, explored New Jersey and New York, and traded with the Lenape.
Henry Hudson
This man was the first Dutch governor of New Amsterdam.
Cornelius Mey
New Jersey was called what when it was owned by the Dutch?
New Amsterdam
New Jersey was briefly split into these two colonies in the late 1600's.
East and West Jersey
This is the person who owns the land of a colony and has the rights to settle in it.
A proprietor
Every explorer who came to America was looking for this.
A sea route to Asia
One of the first English proprietors of New Jersey was born on this English island.
The Isle of Jersey
This was the first permanent town in New Jersey.
Bergen
The common name of the Religious Society of Friends, a Christian sect that believed in total equality and settled in New Jersey.
Quakers
This is a person who has agreed to work for someone else for a set amount of years in return for a trip to America.
Indentured servant
This Italian man was sent to America by the French king.
Giovanni de Verrazzano
This woman combined East and West Jersey back into one colony.
Queen Anne
Describe the relationship between the Dutch and Lenape.
Mixed; fighting and trading.
2. Religious Freedom
3. Using slaves
4. Using indentured servants
New Jersey is what in this group of colonies (New England, Middle, Southern)?
Middle
This man's voyage to New Jersey allowed the English to claim it as their own.
John Cabot
Provide the last name of ONE of the first English proprietors of New Jersey.
Berkeley & Carteret
This woman helped translate between the Dutch and the Lenape.
Sarah Kiersted