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Document-Based Questions
100
This is the thin strip of water that separates Alaska and Russia.
What is the Bering Strait?
100
This river in New York is named after a famous English explorer who sailed for the Dutch.
What is the Hudson River?
100
This was the name of the Dutch colonies in New Jersey and New York.
What is New Netherland?
100
This was the result of England fighting against France in the French and Indian War.
What is England taking on debt from paying for the war?
100
This picture, The Fall of New Amsterdam, shows colonists asking which leader to surrender to the attacking ships.
Whos is Peter Stuyvesant?
200
This is why the Bering Land Bridge is so important to the history of the Americas.
What is the path that Asian nomads took to travel to North America, bringing humans to the Western Hemisphere for the first time?
200
This Dutch explorer has a cape in South Jersey named after him.
Who is Cornelius Mey?
200
He was the harsh and unpopular Governor of New Netherland.
Who is Peter Stuyvesant?
200
This was a tax on lead, paper, glass, paint, and tea.
What is the Townshend Acts?
200
This map shows how New Jersey was sold to these two people.
Who are George Carteret and John Berkeley?
300
These are the three reasons nomads settled in New Jersey.
What are plentiful natural resources, agriculture, and population growth?
300
Giovanni da Verrazzano was searching for this sea route to Asia through the Americas.
What is the Northwest Passage?
300
This idea was why the Quakers set up their own colony in West Jersey and they promised it to all people who came to the colony.
What is religious tolerance?
300
These battles led to the Second Continental Congress.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
300
This map shows the migration of what.
What is the route Asian nomads took over the Bering Land Bridge in search of food?
400
This living spirit is connected to all things and the Lenape worship it because of their respect for the environment around them.
What is the manetuwak?
400
European explorers traveled to New Jersey because they were looking to make what more efficient.
What is find a more efficient trade route by sea to Asia?
400
These groups came to East Jersey because they wanted access to more farmland so they could grow new crops.
Who are the New England Puritans and the Scottish immigrants?
400
This reaction to the Townshend Acts meant that American colonists refused to buy British goods.
What is a boycott?
400
This picture shows a Lenape structure called what and used for what.
What is a longhouse, a large, rectangular house made from tree trunks and used to house many families?
500
Women had these two unique roles in Lenape life that made them very important in Lenape culture.
What are women passed down ownership of land and women farmed in large vegetable gardens?
500
Henry Hudson and Cornelius Mey were both paid to sail by this organization.
What is the Dutch East India Company?
500
This was how Europeans planted their crops, unlike the Delaware, which planted their crops all together.
What is planted crops separately in neat rows?
500
These are the rights listed in the First Continental Congress' Declaration of Rights.
What are the right to no taxation without representation and no British soldiers in the colonies without the colonists' permission?
500
This event was caused by the reaction to what.
What is the Boston Tea Party was caused by the colonists' furious reaction to being taxed for tea without having any say in the decision?