Vocabulary
A settlement ruled by another country
What is a colony?
__________ was the first governor of New Amsterdam.
Who was Peter Minuit?
He was the first governor of New Amsterdam.
Who is Peter Minuit?
Even today, these Dutch influences remain part of American culture.
What is ice-skating, bowling, idioms, and donuts?
This is what the British renamed New Netherland.
What is New York?
People living in the colony are called this.
What is a colonist?
This governor made new laws to make New Amsterdam safer.
Who was Peter Stuyvestant?
These were the two largest communities in the New York colony.
What were NYC and Albany?
This person was a successful fur trader and ship owner along with her husband. They became one of the wealthiest families in New York.
Who was Margaret Phillipse?
Fort Orange was renamed this when the British took over.
What is Albany?
A __________is a landowner who brought 50 people to live on and work his land.
What is a patroon?
This person was a journalist who was put on trial for making fun of Governor William Cosby.
Who was John Peter Zenger?
New Amsterdam was renamed New York because of this person.
Who was the Duke of York?
A ____________ is a landowner who brought 50 people to live on and work his land.
What is a patroon?
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What is 13?
The way of life of a people, including their customs, language, and beliefs.
What is culture?
This person started a whaling business on Long Island and sold whale oil for lamps and whale bones for buttons.
Who was Martha Turnstall Smith?
This is the right of people to tell or print the news.
This person founded Livingston Manor and was a very powerful landowner who also started an ironworks.
Who was Robert Livingston?
New York is located in this colonial region.
What is the Middle Colonies?
A person who promised to work for an employer in a colony for a period of time in return for a paid boat trip to that colony.
What is an indentured servant?
This person had a small fleet of ships and carried Long Island lumber, grain, and beef to New York City with his ships.
Who was Samuel Townsend?
Besides current day New York, New Netherland was part of this other state.
What is New Jersey?
Three things that Peter Stuyvesant accomplished in New Netherland.
What is making the colonists attend church, funded schools, created markets, made peace with the Native Americans, made colonists take care of their homes, created order in taverns?
Give proof about how the Dutch colonists felt after the King of England took control of their colony?
What is they didn't want a free trip to return to the Netherlands, they kept their religion and were allowed free trade?