Vocab
What is a massacre?
The killing of a large group of people.
Beliefs that go against the Bible.
What are the names of the Middle Colonies?
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.
What does Philadelphia mean?
City of brotherly love.
What is the town that Anne Hutchinson helped begin in Rhode Island?
Portsmouth
What is it called to force someone to leave a church?
Excommunication.
What were the three cash crops of the Middle Colonies?
Wheat, Rye and Oats
What was First Skating Day?
A Dutch holiday that celebrated the first day the water was solid enough to skate on.
Who is a pilgrim?
A person who travels for religious reasons.
What is tolerance?
To respect other people who have different religions, cultures, and languages.
Who was William Penn?
A Quaker who got a charter to settle Pennsylvania.
Who was the Duke of York?
The king of England's brother who was sent to take over New Amsterdam.
What is a theocracy?
A government where church leaders are in charge.
What is a Quaker?
A form of Protestantism that believes a man's conscience, not the Bible, is the ultimate authority.
Who was Peter Stuyvesant?
A strong but strict governor of New Amsterdam who had one wooden leg.
Who settled New Netherland?
Henry Hudson for the Dutch in 1609.
What is the name of the town Roger Williams began in Rhode Island?
Providence.
What were the bouweries?
Farms built on the other side of a wall in New Amsterdam.
What was New Amsterdam?
An island that some Dutch settlers bought from the Native Americans.
What was the Dutch West India Trading Company?
A group of wealthy Dutchmen who gained permission to bring settlers to New Netherlands.