Explorer Vocabulary

Land settled and ruled by another country was called __________

• settlement
• colony
• Dutch

Any large area of land is called ________________

• territory
• settlement
• expedition

What is the name of a group of businessmen in the Netherlands that sent settlers to set up a new colony, so that they could trade furs with the Native Americans?

• cargo
• Fort Orange
• Dutch West India Company

What was the first country to claim land in New York State and call it NEW NETHERLANDS?

• Dutch
• New York
• New World

What is the name of the French explorer who made the settlement of Quebec to trade furs with the Native Americans?

• Peter Stuyvesant
• Henry Hudson
• Samuel de Champlain

Goods or supplies carried on a ship, train, airplane or other vehicle is called ____________.

• cargo
• Patroon
• Fort Orange

What is the name of an explorer who was looking for a route to Asia and discovered a large river?

• Samuel de Champlain
• Henry Hudson
• Dutch

A land owner who agreed to bring fifty settlers to the colony to settle the land is called ___________________.

• cargo
• expedition
• patroon

A place where a group of people live is called _____________________. 

• settlement
• territory
• Fort Orange

New Netherlands was renamed this after the British took over.

• New York
• New World
• Dutch West India Company