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Vocabulary
#1

A person that travels to unfamiliar places to find out about them.

Explorer

#2

A place to trade products with others.

Trading Post

#3

A landowner that brought 50 settlers to the colony to live on his land.

Patroon

#4

Being accepting of differences.

Tolerance

#5

The owner of the colony.

Proprietor

Explorers
#1

Most of the explorers were trying to find this water route to Asia

Northwest Passage

#2

This explorer sailed the Hudson River

Henry Hudson

#3

This explorer was the first to discover the New World

Christopher Columbus

#4

The first explorer to reach New York

Giovanni da Verrazano

#5

Why were the explorers trying to find the Northwest Passage?

They thought it would make them wealthy

New Netherland
#1

Why did the Dutch practice tolerance?

to prevent colonists from fighting

#2

Stuyvesant created this to make the colony stronger (2 things)

fire safety laws and a police force

#3

New Netherland was a colony ruled by this country

Holland (The Dutch)

#4

This explorer claimed the land around the Hudson River so that the colony could form

Henry Hudson

#5

How did the tenant farmers in the colony pay their rent? (2 things)

cash or crops

New York
#1

New Netherland surrendered their colony to this country without a single shot being fired

the English

#2

What colony formed because the Duke of York gave part of his colony away?

New Jersey

#3

New York City was once named this

New Amsterdam

#4

When Peter Stuyvesant saw the English warships, what did he want to do?

fight

#5

Why did New Netherlands surrender to the English without a fight?

they thought they were more powerful

Circle Graphs
#1

a circle graph tells you this

a whole amount and its parts

#2

Based on the graph, what method of travelling to school is done the least amount?

Methods of Travelling Pie Graph

Train

#3

Based on the graph, how many people take a bus or car to school?

Methods of Travelling Pie Graph

13

#4

If your favorite sport was soccer, which label in the graph would represent that sport?

Favorite Sport Graph

Other

#5

True/False: More people like sausage toppings on their pizza than supreme toppings.Favorite Pizza Topping

True

Final Question

Explain why people would bring their culture to a new area?

They miss home so they want to eat the same foods, wear the same clothes, and have the same customs as their native (home) country.