Homes During Colonial Times
What was a colony?
The first school that children attended was called what?
A Dame School
This was the Dutch colony that included parts of New
York, New Jersey, and Delaware.
New Netherland
This was the first governor of New Amsterdam.
Peter Minuit
What was a patroon?
A landowner who brought 50 people to live on and work his land.
This was a chore that the boys were responsible for in school.
Getting the firewood to keep the room warm.
This is where where present-day Albany is today.
Fort Orange
The governor that made new laws to make New Amsterdam safer was _______________.
Peter Stuyvestant
What is a double house?
A house that has a business on the ground floor and a home upstairs.
What was the special kind of book used in Dame School called?
A hornbook.
New York City was called...
New Amsterdam.
He was a journalist who was put on trial for making fun of Governor William Cosby.
John Peter Zenger
What is an indentured servant?
a person who promised to work for an employer in a colony for a period of time in return for a paid boat trip to that colony
This is what students wrote with during Colonial Times.
Quill pens
What were two reasons why the Dutch West India Company was set up?
1. Find new areas to settle
2. Trade with the Native Americans
This person started a whaling business on Long Island and sold whale oil for lamps and whale bones for buttons.
Martha Turnstall Smith
What was the right of people to print or tell the news called?
Freedom of the Press
What are 3 things that are different about school today?
School Buildings
Men and Women both teach
Technology
Summers off
School is mandatory.
What were the two largest communities in the New York colony?
This person had a small fleet of ships and carried Long Island lumber, grain, and beef to New York with his ships.
Samuel Townsend