Exploration
These are the original inhabitants of the land we now call New York State prior to European exploration and colonization.
Who are Native Americans?
This is the group of people who colonized the land in and around Manahatta, naming it New Amsterdam.
Who are the Dutch?
This is the group of people who took over New Amsterdam from the Dutch.
Who are the British?
This document was written to say that the British would no longer rule the Americans.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This battle took place in two parts: the Battle of Freeman's Farm and the Battle of Bernis Heights. It is considered the turning point in the War for Independence.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This is when a group comes to settle and establish political control over the area.
What is to colonize?
The Bowery was the farm owned by this Dutch administrator of New Netherland.
Who was Peter Stuyvesant?
These were the names of the two sides fighting in the Revolutionary War.
What are the Loyalists (those who wanted British control) and Patriots (those who wanted to break away from British control)?
This was the first real battle between British and American forces that took place in August 1776.
What is the Battle of Brooklyn?
This is the religion that explorers sought to spread in North America.
What is Christianity?
This group of people fought for their own freedom or ran away when they were being forced to cleared lands and built roads, houses, and forts in New Amsterdam and New York.
Who are Enslaved Africans?
This is the name for not choosing sides in a debate, argument, or war.
What is neutral?
This devastating fire was blamed on revolutionaries at the beginning of the War for Independence.
What is the Great Fire of 1776?
These were the three main reasons for European exploration to the Western Hemisphere. (100 points each)
These are the 4 main natural resources used in New Amsterdam.
What are trees, water, wind, and soil?
These 4 laws in the 1770s were one of the causes for the Revolutionary War. (100 points each)
What were the Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Townshend Act, and Tea Act?
What is Fort Ticonderoga?
These are the names of well known European explorers who explored the New York State area. (100 points each)
Who is Henry Hudson, Adriaen Van Der Donck, Christoper Columbus, Peter Schagen, Giovanni Da Verrazzano?
Name 5 of the original 13 British colonies. (100 points each)
What are Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire?
These complaints were listed in the Declaration of Independence as reasons the American colonists no longer wanted to be ruled by the King of England. Name 5 out of 13 for 100 points each.
1) He made it difficult to pass laws that help people.
2) He wouldn't let the colonists have a say in laws.
3) He made judges afraid to rule against him.
4) He send a lot of military troops to the colonies.
5) He allowed armed troops to live in their homes.
6) He prevented new colonists from arriving.
7) He wouldn't allow them to move into land occupied by natives.
8) He denied them a trial with a jury.
9) He made them pay taxes they didn't agree to.
10) He took away their local government.
11) He sent people accused of crimes back to England for trial.
12) He stole from their shops and set fire to their towns.
13) He encouraged the Natives to attack the colonists.