Vocabulary
A place to trade products with others
A Trading Post
A place ruled by another country
A Colony
The reason European kings looked for a water route to Asia during the Age of Exploration
To get riches from Asia and hoped North America had riches as well
New governor of New Netherland who brought Manhattan Island from the Algonquians for $24 worth of tools, cloth, metals pots, and beads
Peter Minuit
A person who travels to unfamiliar places to find out about them
An Explorer
A fee paid to the government for services
A Tax
A company that started New Netherland in 1624 by trading goods and furs with Native Americans
The Dutch West India Company
Peter Stuyvesant's biggest problem
The English colonists located in the north and south of New Netherland
A water route through North America from Europe
The Northwest Passage
A landowner in New Netherland who had to bring 50 settlers to the colony to help settle his land
A Patroon
New Netherland was different because...
The colony was a place where many different people were welcome
The Duke of York renames the Dutch colony
New York
A way of life shared by a group of people
Culture
A group elected by the people to make laws
An Assembly
New Netherland was captured in 1664, now...
The English now controlled most of the land along the Atlantic coast
Peter Stuyvesant did these 2 things to improve the colony
Fire Safety Laws and Creating a Police Force
The variety among a group of people in a group
Diversity
Accepting of differences
Tolerance
Protected freedom of religion, started the governor did not control the assembly, and became New York's first plan of government
The Charter of Liberties
The Algonquians viewed owning land differently
The Algonquians did not believe they were selling the land to Peter Minuit since they believed that people did not "own" land