British Take Over New Netherland

A distant territory belonging to or under the control of another country is a __.

• settlement

• patroon

• colony

• Fort Orange

The Dutch colony in North America that included parts of New York, New 

Jersey, and Delaware was ___.

• New Amsterdam

• Fort Orange

• Massachusetts

• New Netherland

Who purchased Manhattan from the Native Americans?

• Peter Stuyvesant

• King Charles

• Peter Minuit

• Christopher Columbus

People originally from The Netherlands were known as the ___.

• English

• French

• Spanish

• Dutch

Who was the governor of New Netherland, known as "Peg Leg Peter," who 

surrendered the Dutch colony to the British?

• Peter Minuit

• Peter Smith

• Peter Stuyvesant

• Peter O’Toole

Why did the Dutch surrender to the British without using any military defense?

• Peter Stuyvesant was working for the British.

• The Dutch knew that they could never win a war against the British and didn't want people to be killed.

• The Dutch people wanted to go to war, but the governor didn't want to fight.

• The British paid a lot of money for the Dutch land.

Why did Great Britain want control of the Dutch colony of New Netherland?

• The British wanted control of the entire Atlantic coast.

• The British wanted to get revenge against the Dutch.

• The British wanted to work with the Native Americans.

• The British wanted to search again for the Northwest Passage.

After Great Britain took over New Netherland, the colony was renamed ____.

• New Amsterdam

• New Britain

• New York

• New England