Vocabulary
The Dutch word for a farm.
What is a bouwerie?
This object found in a Dutch home, was very useful for keeping roaming chickens and pigs out of the house.
What are Dutch doors?
The governor of New Amsterdam had this interesting body part. It was the result of fighting in a war.
What is a wooden leg?
How might you tell from the outside that a building was built by the Dutch?
What is the steep slanting roof?
A place where people would hold meetings, eat, drink and sleep at.
What is a tavern?
Name 2 holiday traditions that the Dutch brought from their homeland to New Amsterdam.
What is coloring Easter eggs, and hanging Christmas stockings. Also Ice skating.
This street that still runs straight through Manhattan was originally a Native American trail.
What is Broadway?
Describe the difference between an endentured servant and a slave.
An endedtured servant worked under an agreement that after a set period of time they would be able to go free and start their life. On the other hand, a slave was owned by another human being and was never to go free.
A land that is loacted far away from the country that has control over it.
What is a colony?
Name 3 contributions that Peter Stuyvesant gave to New Amsterdam
What was "The Rattle Watch?"
What was free public schools?
What were a hospital and a post office?
This street was named after a structure that was built to keep out the British.
What is Wall Street?
After 60 years of Dutch rule, New Amsterdam was taken over by this country.
What was Great Britain?
3 reasons that people explored the New world.
What is God, gold, and glory?
The names of some of the streets and areas in lower Manhattan that originally came from the Dutch.
What are Broadway?
What is Beaver Street?
What is Wall Street
What is Bowling Green?
What is Stone Street
This man purchased Manahatta from the Native Americans.
Who was Peter Minuit?
This business was started to send the fur from New Amsterdam back to Europe to make a profit.
What was The Dutch West India Company?