Colonial America
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This was the first permanent English settlement in North America
Jamestown (1607)
This is a settlement that is ruled by another country.
A colony
This was a Dutch person who was given land to start a settlement.
Patroon
Colonists threw tea into Boston Harbor
Boston Tea Party
Peter Stuyvesant became the governor of this colony.
New Netherland
This is what we call money paid to the government so that it can perform services.
A Tax
This company wanted to make money in the New World through the fur trade.
Dutch West India Company
They rented land from a landowner to grow crops on.
Tenant Farmer
He warned people that the British troops were marching towards Lexington and Concord.
Paul Revere
He took the job of governor and bought the island of Manhattan from the Lenni Lenape Indians.
Peter Minuit
The term given to people that were willing to work for free for a certain amount of time in order to receive passage to the New World.
Indentured Servant
A riot in Boston that led to the deaths of at least 5 colonists.
Boston Massacre
The French Huguenots and the Germans brought this with them when they came to the New York colony.
Culture
Colonists were forced to let troops live in their homes.
Quartering Act
He claimed the Hudson River Valley for the Dutch.
Henry Hudson
Four explorers that reached the area of what we now know as New York.
Verrazano, Champlain, Hudson, Cartier
This Colony was once called New Amsterdam
New York
Frederick Philipse built this on his land to grind grain into flour.
Gristmill
No ______________ without Representation
Taxation
Commander in Chief of the Continental Army
George Washington
This country took over New Netherland and renamed in New York
England, British, Great Britain
The first European settlement in New York and today we know it as Albany.
Fort Orange
Robert Livingston owned a very large what in the Hudson River Valley in 1686.
Manor
Fighters who could be ready in a minute's notice.
Minutemen
He published a weekly newspaper and fought a court battle that helped mov forward towards freedom of the press.
John Peter Zenger