New Amsterdam 2.0

The English coveted New Amsterdam because it was ...

• the missing piece in their North American Empire

• the most happening jazz scene in North America

• North America's last best bargain

• impossible to get to from North America

When the four English warships approached Manhattan, Stuyvesant was ready to fight ...

• and led the Dutch forces to victory

• and sent flaming cannonballs at the English

• but couldn't find his sword, and so was late to the confrontation

• but the people of the city were not, and begged him to surrender

New Amsterdam was ______________ New York.

• better than

• equal to

• re-named

• moved to

New York was named in honor of ....

• West New York

• James, the Duke of York

• Yorkshire

• President York of England

By becoming a member of the British Empire, the city was connected to ...

• the global Imperial trade network

• the telephone network for the first time

• a United Nations of equal countries

• a dying power that would drag it down

By the 1740's New York's port had become ...

• the second largest exporter of dates in the world

• the best place to find good coffee on the east coast

• the third largest port in the British Empire

• a place where any sailor might find a ship