European Explorers
The first European to sail up what is now the Hudson River in New York.
Who is Henry Hudson?
Before the Native Americans settled down in villages, these people survived by killing animals and finding plants to eat and use.
Who are hunter-gatherers.
Name of the continent where New York State is found.
What is North America?
What are spices?
This product was traded for with the Native Americans that helped make many early colonists rich.
What is fur?
An Italian sailor who set out to find a new route to the East by sailing West.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This method of intentionally growing food allowed people to start forming communities.
What is agriculture? or What is farming?
Formerly known as Fort Orange by the Dutch, it is the present capital of New York State.
What is Albany?
This is the term for when Europeans came to the new world to trade things like food, animals, medicine and ideas with the native peoples like the Algonquian and the Iroquois.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This person who was free, chose to work for free to pay off their travel and living expenses in New York and the New World with the hope of making their own better life.
What is an indentured servant?
This explorer sailed from Italy and is now known for a bridge from one island borough to the other.
Who is Giovanni da Verrazzano?
This group of Native Americans lived in Wigwams and used the moons to help them survive the seasons.
Who are the Algonquian people?
This is the region of New York State that has the most amount of people due to its location near many sources of water.
What is the New York-Metropolitan Region?
This is a place where the Europeans settled because of the amount of valuable resources found in what is now New York and America.
What is a colony?
These cruel laws disallowed people of color, especially Africans to have the same rights as whites.
What are the slave codes?
This French explorer landed in what is now Canada before sailing south and eventually naming a lake after himself in present-day upstate New York.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
This group of tribes including the Mohawk and the Cayuga, came together to help end the wars between each other.
What is the Iroquois League?
Featuring Mt. Marcy this is the tallest mountain range in New York State.
What are the Adirondack Mountains
A model using a specific shape, describes how slaves were brought from Africa to North and South America.
What is triangular trade?
Not a jeweler but a French navigator who explored the east coast of Canada and the St. Lawrence River and was responsible for naming Canada.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
This sport was created by the Iroquois and is still played and is popular by many people in the Northeast Region of the United States.
What is lacrosse?
This was a devastating result of European expansion in the new world for the Native American.
What is spreading diseases?
The Early Dutch government allowed people to practice their own religions and speak their own languages because of this idea.
What is tolerance?