Vocabulary
A settlement ruled by another country.
What is a colony?
These early New Jerseyans adapted to their environment by making use of the resources in this area.
Who are the Lenape?
Which explorer explored the New York Bay and New Jersey first?
Who is Verrazzano?
Where did NJ get its name from?
The island in England called Jersey
What object did children use to help them learn?
A hornbook
The name of a scientist who studies the way people lived in the past.
What is an archaeologist?
This type of Lenape home held more that one family.
What is a longhouse?
This group started the first European colony in New Jersey.
Who are the Dutch?
Name two things the Lenape and Europeans disagreed about.
Farming, religion, land,
Who was NJ's first official governor?
Lewis Morris
To rise up against.
What is revolt?
This is how Lenape got meat and animal skins for their families.
What is hunting?
The Dutch governor of New Netherland who was very harsh.
Who is Peter Stuyvesant?
How did the Lenape view the land?
They believed everyone should share it and it could not be owned.
If you didn't go to school in colonial times, how did you learn?
From parents, or as an apprentice.
A formal agreement between two or more groups.
What is a treaty?
The Lenape word for chief.
What is a sachem?
The two proprietors that were given this area by the Duke of York.
Who were Lord John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret?
What did wampum mean to the Lenape and the Europeans?
It was important to the Lenape, but the Europeans used it as money.
How did religion influence schools?
Religious groups formed school and religion was primarily what was taught.
Cultural idea that have been passed down from an earlier time.
What is a legacy?
The Lenape word for the spirit they believed was is all living things.
What is manetuwak?
Why did Jewish people and Quakers move to New Netherland?
They were looking for religious freedom.
From what continent did enslaved people come from to North America?
Africa
What part did slavery play in early NJ history?
Slave population grew, but also people worked to try and stop it.