Vocabulary
Contributions
Interesting Facts
Dutch Life
100

The Dutch word for a farm.

What is a bouwerie?

100

This object found in a Dutch home, was very useful for keeping roaming chickens and pigs out of the house.

What are Dutch doors?

100

The governor of New Amsterdam had this interesting body part. It was the result of fighting in a war.

What is a wooden leg?

100

How might you tell from the outside that a building was built by the Dutch?

 What is the steep slanting roof?

200

A place where people would hold meetings, eat, drink and sleep at.

What is a tavern?

200

Name 2 holiday traditions that the Dutch brought from their homeland to New Amsterdam.

What is coloring Easter eggs, and hanging Christmas stockings. Also Ice skating.

200

This street that still runs straight through Manhattan was originally a Native American trail.

What is Broadway?

200

Describe the difference between an endentured servant and a slave.

An endedtured servant worked under an agreement that after a set period of time they would be able to go free and start their life. On the other hand, a slave was owned by another human being and was never to go free.

300

A land that is loacted far away from the country that has control over it.

What is a colony?

300

Name  3 contributions that Peter Stuyvesant gave to New Amsterdam

What was "The Rattle Watch?"

What was free public schools?

What were a hospital and a post office?


300

This street was named after a structure that was built to keep out the British.

What is Wall Street?

300

After 60 years of Dutch rule, New Amsterdam was taken over by this country.

What was Great Britain?


400

 3 reasons that people explored the New world.

What is God, gold, and glory?

400

The names of some of the streets and areas in lower Manhattan that originally came from the Dutch.

What are Broadway?

What is Beaver Street?

What is Wall Street

What is Bowling Green?

What is Stone Street


400

This man purchased Manahatta from the Native Americans.

Who was Peter Minuit?

400

This business was started to send the fur from New Amsterdam back to Europe to make a profit.

What was The Dutch West India Company?