Colonial America

What was Fort Orange?

• The English town that sent colonists to the New World.
• A group of businessmen that sent Dutch colonists to the New World.
• The first permanent European settlement in New York.
• A plantation where the colonists grew and sold oranges.

What was the Dutch West India Company?

• The landowners who promised to help settle farmers on their land.
• A group of businessmen that sent Dutch colonists to the New World.
• The first permanent European settlement in New York.
• The English town that sent colonists to the New World.

What country "fought" the Dutch and later gained control of New Amsterdam?

• Spain
• England
• France
• Sweden

His victory in court was a great step toward freedom of the press.

• Peter Minuit
• Peter Stuyvesant
• John Peter Zenger
• Henry Hudson

A settlement that is ruled by another country is called a _______.

• Patroon
• Indentured Servant
• Native American
• Colony

What role did Peter Minuit play in the early development of New Amsterdam?

• A governor who treated the people badly and caused many to leave the colony.
• A governor who believed that its placement near two bodies of water would make it a center of trade.
• A governor who fought many battles against the Native Americans.
• A governor who sold much of the land to the English, starting the downfall of the Dutch settlement.

What role did Peter Stuyvesant play in the continued development of New Amsterdam?

• A governor who started the first school, police department, and fire brigade.
• A governor who treated them fairly and signed a peace treaty with the Native Americans.
• A governor who built the first pier in what is now the New York harbor.
• All of the above.

The city that grew around the fort at the tip of Manhattan.

• England
• New Amsterdam
• New Netherland
• Fort Orange

Money that people pay to the government so that it can perform services.

• taxes
• colonist
• economy
• rent

New Netherland was renamed _______.

• New Orange
• New Amsterdam
• New York
• New France