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? |
Train |
#3 | Based on the graph, how many people take a bus or car to school? |
13 |
#4 | If your favorite sport was soccer, which label in the graph would represent that sport? |
Other |
#5 | True/False: More people like sausage toppings on their pizza than supreme toppings. |
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. |