Chapter 4 Test- Social Studies

What is one reason why European explorers come to what is now New York?

• hunting

• looking for trees

• shorter route to Asia

Which explorer sailed on the Half Moon into New York Bay?

• Hudson

• Cabot

• Columbus

Which explorer named a large lake in northern New York after himself?

• Minuit

• Columbus

• Champlain

Which was one of the earliest Dutch settlements in what is now New York?

• New York City

• Dutch West India

• New Amsterdam

Which was NOT a major type of work in the New Netherlands settlement?

• trading

• gold mining

• building houses

How might you best describe the people of New Netherland?

• spoke many languages

• mainly Jewish settlers

• arrived from Asian countries

Which is NOT true of Africans in New Netherland?

• they were not allowed to work

• some came as free people

• they arrived as enslaved people

What is NOT true of the fur trade between colonists and Native Americans?

• Dutch West India Company encouraged unfair treatment of Native Americans

• both the Dutch and Native Americans benefitted from the fur trade

• furs were sent down the Hudson River to New Amsterdam and sold

What is true of the patroon system?

• in charge of paving streets

• a settler who came to work on wealthy landowner's land

• would receive land in exchange for bringing 50 settlers with them

What is NOT true of daily life in New Amsterdam?

• only boys attended school for a few hours each day

• boys and girls both went to school for 6 hours each day

• most families heated their home and cooked with a huge fireplace