Category 1
A place that is ruled by another country
Colony
A person who lives in a colony
A colonist
The leader of a colony
Governor
A consumer's desire for an item
demand
Earnings that remain after subtracting the cost of making and selling goods and services
Profit
A sea route to North America that explorers were looking for
Northwest passage
A person who was given land by the Dutch West India Company for bringing 50 settlers to New Netherland
Patroon
The Dutch settlement established at the southern tip of Manhattan Island
New Amsterdam
_______explored the Great Lakes and Irondequoit Bay.
Robert LaSalle
_______was searching for more land in Canada but discovered a lake that was later named Lake Champlain.
Samuel de Champlain
Company formed by several Dutch people in the early 1600s to set up trade with the Indigenous People
The Dutch West India Company
The first permanent Dutch settlement in New Netherland located in the present-day city of Albany, New York
Fort Orange
______discovered a river that the Dutch would later settle on and use as a trading post.
Henry Hudson
What did the Dutch want to trade with the Indigenous people?
Beaver Fur
_______was given credit for the first European to reach the “New World” and America was named after him.
Amerigo Vespucci
______was an explorer that thought he sighted islands off the coast of Asia but it was actually the Bahamas.
Christopher Columbus
What were two reasons for exploration?
Luxuries, to spread Christianity, wealth, larger empires
What were two dangers of exploration?
Wooden boats, storms and weather, beliefs about dragons, unknown geography
Explain the trading process between the Dutch and the Indigenous people.
Bring the fur to the trading post, trade fur with the Dutch for supplies, send fur down the Hudson to New Amsterdam, Ship furs to Europe.
_______was from Italy and voyaged to New York Bay.
Giovanni Verranzano