Explorers
He was an English explorer who sailed for the Dutch and has a famous river and bay named after him.
Who is Henry Hudson?
The original Dutch name for the colony that later became New York.
The most important item the Dutch traded for with Native Americans.
What are animal furs/beaver pelts?
Explorers wanted to reach Asia specifically to find these items used for flavoring and preserving food.
A person who travels to unknown places to discover new things.
What is an explorer?
This Italian explorer was the first European to reach New York Harbor in 1524.
Who is Giovanni da Verrazzano?
The Dutch settlement located on the tip of Manhattan Island where present day New York City is.
What is New Amsterdam?
The Native American group that lived in the Hudson Valley and traded with the Dutch.
Who are the Algonquians?
Many explorers were searching for this shortcut through North America to reach Asia.
What is the Northwest Passage?
A settlement ruled by another country.
What is a colony?
This French explorer explored the northern part of New York and has a large lake named after him.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
This Dutch company was formed to set up trade and build settlements in the New World.
What is the Dutch West India Company?
A landowner in New Netherland who brought 50 settlers to the colony in exchange for a large land grant.
What is a patroon?
The king of this country sent Giovanni da Verrazzano to find a route to Asia.
What is France?
Trade without restrictions or taxes.
What is Free Trade?
The explorer who has the most waterways named after him in the world.
The name of the Dutch settlement that eventually became the city of Albany.
What is the name of the tradition the Dutch practiced in their colony that was accepting of peoples differences?
What is tolerance?
The name of the trading post Samuel de Champlain set up on the St. Lawrence River.
What is Quebec?
Money earned after a business pays its costs.
What is profit?
Claimed the river valley of the St. Lawrence River for France.
He was the last Dutch governor of New Netherland that ruled firmly before the English took over.
Who is Peter Stuyvesant?
This group of people were brought to the colony against their will to work on farms and build roads.
Who are slaves or enslaved Africans?
The English renamed the colony New York in honor of this man, the brother of King Charles II.
Who is the Duke of York?
A place to trade products with others.
What is a trading post?