Age of Exploration
Explorer who landed in 1492 in present day Americas
Who was Christopher Columbus?
What is the Colombian Exchange?
A settlement far from the country that rules it.
What is a colony?
What is Fort Orange?
The King of England who gave New Netherland to his brother.
Who is King Charles?
Europeans were searching for this short cut.
What is a fast route to Asia?
Animals that were brought to North America through the Columbian Exchange.
What are cows, sheep, pigs and horses?
(Name 2)
What were furs and tools?
The name of the settlement that is now New York City.
What is New Amsterdam?
The person New York is named after.
Who is the Duke of York?
The water route to Asia through North America.
What was the Northwest Passage?
Animals that were brought to Europe through the Columbian Exchange.
What are turkeys?
A company set up to run the Dutch colony in North America.
What was the Dutch West India Company?
The Dutch leader who purchased Manhattan from the Lenne Lenape.
Who is Peter Minuit?
Giovanni da Verrazano
Who was an Italian explorer who sailed in NY Bay?
Fruits and vegetables brought to Europe through the Columbian Exchange.
What are potatoes, tomatoes, corn, pumpkins, squash, beans, cocoa, vanilla, peppers, pineapples, and sweet potatoes?
(Name at least 2).
Countries that New Netherland settlers came from.
What are Spain, France, England, Sweden, Holland?
The reason many Dutch settlers moved south from Fort Orange to New Amsterdam.
What are conflicts with Native Americans?
Places named after original Dutch names.
What is Brooklyn, the Bronx, Yonkers?
(name 1)
An English explorer who sailed for the Dutch to NY Bay and up the Hudson River.
Who was Henry Hudson?
What are grapes, bananas, sugar cane, onions, olives, turnips, coffee beans, peaches, pears, wheat, rice, barley and oats?
(Name at least 3)
The acceptance of other's beliefs practiced in the colony of New Amsterdam.
What is religious tolerance?
The ill-tempered governor sent to improve the conditions of the New Netherland.
Examples of cultural influences of the Dutch in New York.
What is cold slaw? What is ice skating?