NY Colony

New Netherlands, a Dutch colony, became New York, an English colony.

• True
• False

Who was Peter Stuyvesant?

• Director General of the Dutch New Netherland Colony
• A Quaker, who founded Pennsylvania
• stood trial for printing criticism of NY governor
• Enlightened thinker who believed that people had natural rights that the government could not take away

In the end New Amsterdam became ...

• Albany

• Fort Orange

• Jersey City

• New York City

New Netherlands was ruled by the ______. When the colony was renamed New York it was ruled by the ______.

• Spanish, French
• French, Dutch
• Dutch, English
• English, Dutch

What is the name of the settlement in present-day Manhattan?

• Fort Orange
• Aquebogue
• New Amsterdam
• Belgium

Which angry, stern governor started many new laws in New Amsterdam and also made a fire department and public schools?

• Peter Minuit
• Henry Hudson
• Peter Stuyvesant
• Willem Kieft

Who settled New Netherland in 1621?

• The English

• The Spanish

• The Dutch

• The Americans

How did the English take New Netherland from the Dutch?

• The English won a war.

• The Dutch governor surrendered the colony.

• The Dutch ran away.

• The English paid the Dutch for the colony.

What was the purpose of the colony of New Netherland?

• to create a beautiful place for people to live

• to create a place that would make money for the country called the Netherlands

• to create long-lasting friendships with Native Americans

• to allow people of the Netherlands to get exciting metal tools

What were the people from the Netherlands called?

• French

• English

• Dutch

• Indians