Vocabulary
What is a distant territory belonging to another country?
Colony
The explorer who claimed the land along the Hudson River?
Henry Hudson
What colony is # 1 on the map?
Virginia
What colony is #6 on the map?
New York
What colony is #11 on the map?
Rhode Island
The area that was claimed by the Dutch was called?
New Netherland
The first governor of New Netherland that claimed New Amsterdam and traded with Native Americans
Peter Minuit
What colony is #2 on the map?
Delaware
What colony is #7 on the map?
Connecticut
What colony is #12 on the map?
South Carolina
What was the area of New Netherland that was located in present day Manhattan?
New Amsterdam
What was Peg Leg Pete's full name?
Peter Stuyvesant
What colony is #3 on the map?
Georgia
What colony is #8 on the map?
Massachussets
What colony is #13 on the map?
New Jersey
What was the area of New Netherland that was located in present day Albany?
Fort Orange
Who surrendered New Netherland to the English?
Peter Stuyvesant
What colony is #4 on the map?
Maryland
What colony is #9 on the map?
New Hampshire
Why did Peter Stuyvesant surrender New Netherland? Give at least 2 reasons
-they were outnumbered
-the wall protecting town was falling down
-food and weapons were scarce
When the English took over New Netherland it was named?
New York
Who was New York named after?
The Duke of York
What colony is #5 on the map?
Pennsylvania
What colony is #10 on the map?
North Carolina
Why did the British want to take over?
So they can have control over the East coast of the New World