A Growing Colony
To help New Yorkers govern themselves and make their own laws they formed this assembly.
What is the New York Assembly?
This is the disgusting practice of buying and selling humans.
What is the slave trade?
This is the type of farm where the most profit was made but also where slaves often were found.
What is a manor farm?
This was a chore that was common for boys and girls in the 1700's.
What is gather eggs and milk the cows?
The Algonquians were one of the early groups in America to practice this early form of economy where giving and getting things is important.
What is trade?
When a government with a king, queen or other type of monarch has people living in other places it is called this.
What is a royal colony?
This is where most slaves lived and worked in early America.
What are farms?
This is a way to make money by helping someone do a job. For example, a farm-hand.
What is a service? /What is performing a service?
According to the text, this was an example of a musical instrument only men could play during the 1700's.
What is a violin? (also fiddles, flutes and fifes)
This is the tallest mountain range in New York State.
What are the Adirondacks?
Often unpopular, this is a way for governments to make money to help support themselves and create projects like roads to help peoples lives.
What is a tax?
Going from Africa to America and to Europe and back, formed this route in colonial times.
What is triangular trade?
These were the people that owned businesses mostly in cities.
Who were merchants?
This is another name for a job or profession.
What is a trade?
This is the fastest way to reach the new world that the early Explorers were looking for.
What is the Northwest Passage?
These people voluntarily moved to America, but because they couldn't afford it worked for many years to earn their freedom.
Who were indentured servants?
While most slaves did unskilled work like picking crops, and didn't get an education. Some, like Jupiter Harmon, were able to do these two skills.
What is reading and writing?
Sometimes people in the New York Colony didn't have certain products. So, they would get these from other places.
What are imports?
This section of Lesson 4 discusses what types of schools were available and how people in the 1700's learned.
What is Getting an Education?
These European people took control of New Amsterdam and named it something we are all familiar with today.
These were the European nation that brought us ice skating.
Who were the Dutch?
These were the unfair laws governing slaves in the colonies.
What are slave codes?
New York was great for trade in colonial times because it had this place where boats could dock.
What is a port?
This is a person who learned a job from a professional.
What is an apprentice?
The Dutch practiced the accepting of different religions or beliefs.
What is tolerance?