Vocabulary
A settlement ruled by another country
What is a colony?
__________ was the first governor of New Amsterdam.
Who was Peter Minuit?
This is a place where grain is ground into flour.
What is a gristmill?
This was set up to find new areas to settle and trade with the Native Americans.
What was the Dutch West India Company?
This is what the British renamed New Netherland.
What is New York?
People living in the colony are called this.
What is a colonist?
This governor made new laws to make New Amsterdam safer.
Who was Peter Stuyvestant?
These were the two largest communities in the New York colony.
What were NYC and Albany?
This person was a successful fur trader and ship owner along with her husband. They became one of the wealthiest families in New York.
Who was Margaret Phillipse?
Fort Orange was renamed this when the British took over.
What is Albany?
A __________is a landowner who brought 50 people to live on and work his land.
What is a patroon?
This person was a journalist who was put on trial for making fun of Governor William Cosby.
Who was John Peter Zenger?
New Amsterdam was renamed New York because of this person.
Who was the Duke of York?
A ____________ is a landowner who brought 50 people to live on and work his land.
What is a patroon?
This was a large piece of land that an owner rented out smaller plots of land to tenant farmers
What is a manor?
The way of life of a people, including their customs, language, and beliefs.
What is culture?
This person started a whaling business on Long Island and sold whale oil for lamps and whale bones for buttons.
Who was Martha Turnstall Smith?
This is the right of people to tell or print the news.
This person founded Livingston Manor and was a very powerful landowner who also started an ironworks.
Who was Robert Livingston?
New York is located in this colonial region.
What is the Middle Colonies?
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.
What is an indentured servant?
This person had a small fleet of ships and carried Long Island lumber, grain, and beef to New York City with his ships.
Who was Samuel Townsend?
Three things that were different between Colonial schools and schools today.
What was:
*one-room schoolhouse
*only women could be teachers
*punishments
*limited resources
Three things that Peter Stuyvesant accomplished in New Netherland.
What is making the colonists attend church, funded schools, created markets, made peace with the Native Americans, made colonists take care of their homes, created order in taverns?
Give proof about how the Dutch colonists felt after the King of England took control of their colony?
What is they didn't want a free trip to return to the Netherlands, they kept their religion and were allowed free trade?