Reasons for Colonialization
A group of people from a country who built a settlement in another land.
What is a colony?
Name three problems with the first homes made by colonists.
What is cold, damp, dark, dirty, and allowed bugs?
This governor bought Manhattan from the Lenni Lanape tribe.
Who is Peter Minuit?
Even today, these Dutch influences remain part of American culture.
What is ice-skating, bowling, idioms, and donuts?
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 is what the Dutch named the island that is now New York City.
What is New Amsterdam?
The Dutch treated other European immigrants in this way.
What is tolerance?
An expression that has a hidden meaning.
What is an idiom?
Fort Orange was renamed this when the British took over.
What is Albany?
The reason the fur trade declined.
What is beavers were over-hunted and the beaver population started to decline?
This is what the Dutch named New York State.
What is New Netherland?
This is why the Europeans wanted beaver fur.
What is it was fashionable?
Africans were taken from their home and brought to New Netherland for this reason.
What is they were made to be slaves and build the town of New Amsterdam?
This is the number of colonies the British controlled by the year 1773.
What is 13?
This country is where the first colonists that settled in what is now NY were from.
What is the Netherlands?
This is the name of the company that paid for 30 Dutch families to begin a new life in the new world to establish trade.
What is the Dutch West India Company?
An item that the Indians traded in exchange for beaver fur.
What is knives, tools or axes?
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?
New York is located in this colonial region.
What is the Middle Colonies?
These are some of the reasons why the colonists chose to move to the New World.
What is for adventure, to get rich, to have a better life, and to have religious freedom?
This is a first hand account of an event. It could be an oral history, a photograph, or even a diary entry.
What is a primary source?
Besides current day New York, New Netherland was part of this other state.
What is New Jersey?
The reason King Charles II believed England had the right to take over New Netherland.
What is because of John Cabot's exploration?
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?