Dutch Colony
Vocabulary
Peter Stuyvesant
Systems
Other
100

This is the name of the new COLONY created by the Dutch.

New Netherlands


100

This is the term for someone who lives in a colony.

Colonist

100

What was Peter Stuyvesant’s nickname?

Peg Leg Peter or Old Silver Leg

100

True or False: Being an indentured servant is the same thing as being a slave.



False 


DOUBLE JEOPARDY BONUS: 

What is the difference?

100

The name of the flower that the Dutch brought with them.

Tulips

200
This is the name of the new CITY created by the Dutch in the New World.
What is New Amsterdam?
200

A meeting place or inn is called a…

Tavern

200
What did Peter Stuyvesant call people who questioned his rules?

Clowns and rebels

200

This is a person who wants to go to the New World, but can't afford it. So an employer pays for their boat trip and they work for that employer until they pay it off. Then they are FREE.

Indentured servant

200
What is the name of the game that the Dutch brought to North America?

Bowling

300

Who “bought” Manhattan from the Algonquians?

Peter Minuit bought Manhattan from the Lenape tribe.

300
A territory located far from the country that has control over it.

Colony

300

Name at least three organizations Stuyvesant helped create to help people in New Amsterdam. 

Hospitals, schools, orphanages, post office, police force (Rattle Watch) and a fire department (Hand-in-Hand Fire Company)

300

This is where a person from Africa was forced over to the New World. They are treated as property and sold to a master. They work for no pay and are NEVER free.

Slavery

300

Name at least two examples of Dutch influences still evident in New York today.

Sledding, ice skating, words from their language (examples: stoop, spook, yacht), invented the fried doughnut, bowling, tulips, coloring Easter eggs, some Christmas traditions

400

What are some of the items that the first colonists brought with them? Name at least two.

Animals, furniture, clothing, seeds, food

400

The name of a person who controls a town or colony (Hint: Peter Stuyvesant and Peter Minuit are examples of this.)

Governor

400

What were some problems that Peter Stuyvesant encountered when he arrived in New Amsterdam? Name at least three. 

Animals running loose, mud instead of streets of gold, outhouses on the street, drunkenness and fighting, wooden chimneys, church was unfinished.

400

What is the fort called that the Dutch built at the site that is now present-day Albany?

Fort Orange

400

A mill that grinds wheat and corn when the wind turns its large blades.

Windmill

500
This is a group of businessmen who ran the colony of New Netherlands. They also started the Patroon System.
What is the Dutch West India Company?
500

The Dutch called their farms…

Bouweries

500

Name at least two reasons why the people were unhappy with Peter Stuyvesant’s actions.

Ruled like a tyrant (he decided everything, and listened to no one), he did not want people who practiced a religion different from his own living in New Amsterdam (did not like people of the Jewish faith or Quakers) 

500

This is the system created by the Dutch West India Company where the Dutch West India Company would give a large amount of land to someone who could bring over 50 settlers to New Netherlands. The settlers had to pay rent of crops and livestock.

Patroon System

500
The explorer who sailed for the Netherlands and claimed the land that later became New Netherlands.
Who is Henry Hudson?