Chapter 4 test NY

Why was New Amsterdam's government different form those of other Dutch towns?

• Wealthy merchants, who had a strong voice in city life, wanted self government

• Landowner voted to elect leaders

• Town leaders were appointed by the Dutch king.

• The people liked the way Peter Stuyvesant rant he city and they gave him total control.

After the English took control of the colony of New Netherland, it was renamed

• Albany

• Fort Orange

• New York

• New Amsterdam

Huguenots were people who cam to New York

• to get away from war

• to find jobs

• to find religious freedom

• to settle rich lands

The trial of John Peter Zenger introduce the idea of

• writing as many newspaper articles against leaders as possible

• trial by jury

• religious freedom in New York

• freedom of the press

Many of the goods and services produced in colonial New York were

• shipped in from England

• used by the people of New York and the other English colonies

• not available to the people of New York

• not important to New York's economy

What is manufacturing

• the selling of products

• the transporting of products

• the trading of products

• the making of products

Most people living in colonial New York during the 1700's made their living

• as farmers

• by working in new industries

• as teachers

• as merchants

Troubles between the French and the British over lands in New York led to the

• increase in trade

• Albany Congress

• French and Indian War

• Proclamation of 1763

What did the Albany Plan of Union call for?

• the uniting of all colonies under one government

• the colonists and the Iroquois to become allies

• the end of the French and Indian War

• Merchants to provide supplies to the British Government

The Proclamation of 1763 stated that

• all land west of the Appalachian Mountains belonged to farmers willing to settle there

• all lands west of the Appalachian Mountains belonged to the Native Americans

• New Orleans belonged to the French

• colonial governments had to help pay the debt caused by the French and Indian War