Age of Exploration
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Dutch Colonies
Life in the Dutch Colonies
Life in Amsterdam
100
A person who travels to unknown places and discovers new information.
What is an explorer?
100
In the 1600s, Europeans were eager to get to North America in order to trade with Native Americans for this product (resource).
What is fur/beaver skin?
100
This is a place that is ruled by a different country than the one in which it is located.
What is a colony?
100
True or False? Only boys went to school during Colonial times.
False. Both boys and girls attended school -- three hours each morning and three hours each afternoon, all year round!
100

This happened to people who committed a crime in Amsterdam.

What is banishment?

200
A water route to Asia through North America that explorers were trying to find
What is the Northwest Passage?
200
Several Dutch people formed a company called the ______________ _____________________ ________________ _________________ and wanted to set up a Dutch colony in North America.
What is Dutch West India Company?
200
This is someone who lives in a colony.
What is a colonist?
200

These people were brought from their country against their will to work for others with little or no pay.

Who were enslaved Africans?

200

Poor hygiene contributed to __________ in poor children.

What is the high Mortality/death rate?

300

When ________________________ first reached North America (the Caribbean), he thought he had arrived in _____________________.

Who was Columbus & What is India?

300
This is is the system of producing and delivering goods and services.
What is economy?
300

This is the earliest Dutch settlement in what is now New York.

What is New Netherland?

What is New Amsterdam(New York City)?

300
This was most children's favorite holiday: School was closed on the first day each winter when the ponds freeze.
What was First Skating Day?
300

The sons from rich families would study at ________

in order to get into universities.

What is The Latin School?

400

Name one European explorer who reached New York. Explain why he first came to North America and which areas he explored.

Who was Giovanni da Verrazano in 1525?

Who was Henry Hudson in 1609?

400
Why was the fur trade important to both the Dutch and the Native Americans? Support your answer with details.
The Dutch made money by shipping furs to Europe, and the Native Americans benefited from the tools and cloth made by the Europeans.
400

This is the leader of a colony, settlement, or state.

What is the governor? What is the governor-general?

400

There were people from different countries living in the Dutch colony. Name 3 different cultures that were found in this colony.

(Dutch, French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Jews, Africans)

400

Finding your way home after dark might land you in___________.

What is a canal?

500

Name one European explorer who reached New York. Explain why he first came to North America and which areas he explored.

Who was Giovanni da Verrazano- passage to East Asia?

Who was Henry Hudson- Northwest Passage?

500

A ____________________ is the earnings(money) that remains after subtracting the cost of making and selling a product.

What is profit?

500

He was the first governor-general of the first Dutch settlement (that is now New York).

Who was Peter Minuit?

500

The English were the major trade competitors of the Dutch. (TRUE/FALSE)

TRUE: The British East India Company wanted greater control of the trade routes & markets in Asia.

500

Marbles, hopscotch, and blindman's bluff are examples of ____________.

What are Dutch children's games?

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