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100
These people migrated to New Paltz from France in 1678.
Who were the Huguenots?
100
The amount of time that children in colonial New York usually attended school each year.
What is three months?
100
These people made a living trading goods for a profit.
Who were the merchants?
100

Trade out of New York ports was growing and ships were needed to carry trade goods.

Why were shipyards opened in New York City?

100
This group of people introduced ice skating to New York.
Who were the Dutch?
200
This group of immigrants settled in an old Dutch town that they renamed Rhinebeck.
Who are the Germans?
200
After the British took over, all students had to learn this language in school.
What is English?
200
Teachers, doctors, postmen, nurses, policemen, etc...
What are service jobs?
200

This printer was put on trial for printing opinions that the Governor did not like.

Who was John Peter Zenger?

200

These people introduced the colonists to the three sister crops.

Who were the Native Americans?

300

Desire for land, need to find work, and religious freedom; Africans were forced to come as slaves.

What were the major reasons that settlers came to New York?

300
These children learned skills that would help them make a living as an adult. They were also given food, shelter and clothing in exchange for their work.
Who were apprentices?
300
Cobbler, blacksmith, cooper, carpenter, printers or potters.
Who were artisans?
300
A large piece of land owned by one landowner.
What is a manor?
300

The city where New York's first chocolate factory was located.

What is Albany?

400
The buying and selling of enslaved people.
What is the slave trade?
400
If you wanted your children to go to school, you had to do this.
What is families had to pay the teacher.
400
These people came to New York by finding someone in the colonies to pay for their boat trip across the Atlantic Ocean to New York. Then, in exchange, these people would agree to work (without pay) for that person for a period of approximately 5 years.
Who were indentured servants?
400
These colonists were elected to represent New Yorkers in this part of the government.
What is the Assembly?
400

This group of people are remembered for contributing the following things to American culture: the donut, Sinterklaas, wind mills and cole slaw.

Who were the Dutch?

500
He was the first African American slave to publish a poem.
Who was Jupiter Hammon?
500
This was the first college founded in New York in 1754.
What is King's College?
500

This helped young people learn skills that would help them make a living as an adult

What is an apprenticeship?

500
Only white, male, landowners
Who were the people that were allowed to vote for the Assembly?
500

 ice skating, tennis, a variety of national foods, and different styles of architecture.

What are other contributions from people of different cultures?