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Weather and Early NY
Coming to New York
Colonies
Government
New Ways to Travel
100
This large sheet of ice helped shape New York's landforms.
What is a glacier?
100
Many European explorers thought this was a quicker route to get to Asia.
What is the Northwest Passage?
100
The Dutch named their new colony this when they arrived in what is now New York.
What is New Netherland?
100
The name of Britain's government.
What is Parliament?
100
Money paid to use a turnpike.
What is a toll?
200
This person got food by hunting animals and gathering plants.
What is a hunter-gatherer?
200
In the 1600s, this Englishman sailed on the Half Moon into New York Bay and sailed up a large river in what is now New York.
Who is Henry Hudson?
200
The buying and selling of enslaved people.
What is the slave trade?
200
Document written by Jefferson to tell England why the colonies should be free.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
200
A waterway built by people.
What is a canal?
300
This group of five nations joined together and formed one of the most powerful Native American groups in North America.
What is the Iroquois League?
300
This Italian reached an island off the coast of North America and mistakenly believed he was in Asia.
Who is Columbus?
300
This person agreed to work for a certain amount of time in exchange for a boat trip to America.
What is an indentured servant?
300
The first ten amendments of the United States Constitution.
What are the Bill of Rights?
300
The name of Fulton's steamboat.
What is the "Clermont"?
400
This animal was the main food supply for early New Yorkers.
What is the mastodon?
400
The game of ninepins and the doughnut were brought to America by this group.
Who are the Dutch?
400
The people and laws that run a place such as a colony, city, state, or country.
What is a government?
400
In 1787, representatives met in this city for the Constitutional Convention.
What is Philadelphia?
400
A waterway that went from Albany to Buffalo; nicknamed " Clinton's Ditch".
What is the Erie Canal?
500
The pattern of weather in a region over a long period of time.
What is climate?
500
RUMOR: He bought the island of Manhattan from the Lenni Lenape for about 24 dollars.
Who is Peter Minuit.
500
In 1664, this country forced the Dutch out of New York and took control.
Who is England?
500
The three branches of the government.
What is judicial, legislative and executive?
500
A time in history when there was a change in the way goods were made; a time of invention and innovation.
What was the Industrial Revolution?