Dutch Colony
This is the name of the new COLONY created by the Dutch.
New Netherlands
This is the term for someone who lives in a colony.
Colonist
What was Peter Stuyvesant’s nickname?
Peg Leg Peter or Old Silver Leg
True or False: Being an indentured servant is the same thing as being a slave.
False
DOUBLE JEOPARDY BONUS:
What is the difference?
The name of the flower that the Dutch brought with them.
Tulips
A meeting place or inn is called a…
Tavern
Clowns and rebels
This is a person who wants to go to the New World, but can't afford it. So an employer pays for their boat trip and they work for that employer until they pay it off. Then they are FREE.
Indentured servant
Bowling
Who “bought” Manhattan from the Algonquians?
Peter Minuit bought Manhattan from the Lenape tribe.
Colony
Name at least three organizations Stuyvesant helped create to help people in New Amsterdam.
Hospitals, schools, orphanages, post office, police force (Rattle Watch) and a fire department (Hand-in-Hand Fire Company)
This is where a person from Africa was forced over to the New World. They are treated as property and sold to a master. They work for no pay and are NEVER free.
Slavery
Name at least two examples of Dutch influences still evident in New York today.
Sledding, ice skating, words from their language (examples: stoop, spook, yacht), invented the fried doughnut, bowling, tulips, coloring Easter eggs, some Christmas traditions
What are some of the items that the first colonists brought with them? Name at least two.
Animals, furniture, clothing, seeds, food
The name of a person who controls a town or colony (Hint: Peter Stuyvesant and Peter Minuit are examples of this.)
Governor
What were some problems that Peter Stuyvesant encountered when he arrived in New Amsterdam? Name at least three.
Animals running loose, mud instead of streets of gold, outhouses on the street, drunkenness and fighting, wooden chimneys, church was unfinished.
What is the fort called that the Dutch built at the site that is now present-day Albany?
Fort Orange
A mill that grinds wheat and corn when the wind turns its large blades.
Windmill
The Dutch called their farms…
Bouweries
Name at least two reasons why the people were unhappy with Peter Stuyvesant’s actions.
Ruled like a tyrant (he decided everything, and listened to no one), he did not want people who practiced a religion different from his own living in New Amsterdam (did not like people of the Jewish faith or Quakers)
This is the system created by the Dutch West India Company where the Dutch West India Company would give a large amount of land to someone who could bring over 50 settlers to New Netherlands. The settlers had to pay rent of crops and livestock.
Patroon System