Grade 4 Unit 2: British Take Over Assessment

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

• colony
• settlement
• patroon
• 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

Match the names of the colonies to the correct number on the map in the table.

f

g

e

d

c

b

a

Connecticut

Rhode Island

New Hampshire

New Jersey

Pennsylvania

Massachusetts

New York

Match the name of the colony to the number on the colony

c

d

e

f

b

a

Delaware

North Carolina

South Carolina

Maryland

Virginia

Georgia