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New Netherlands

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 45mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What happened when Peter Stuyvesant saw the warships?
a)
He ran away scared.
b)
He had a party.
c)
He wanted to fight but the colonists didn't.
d)
He made a deal with the English.
2.

In the end New Amsterdam became ...

a)

Albany

b)

Fort Orange

c)

Jersey City

d)

New York City

3.
New Netherlands was ruled by the ______. When the colony was renamed New York it was ruled by the ______.
a)
Spanish, French
b)
French, Dutch
c)
Dutch, English
d)
English, Dutch
4.
What is the name of the settlement in present-day Manhattan?
a)
Fort Orange
b)
Aquebogue
c)
New Amsterdam
d)
Belgium
5.
A person or group who settles in a colony is called a 
a)
governor
b)
slave
c)
colonist
d)
merchant
6.
Which angry, stern governor started many new laws in New Amsterdam and also made a fire department and public schools?
a)
Peter Minuit
b)
Henry Hudson
c)
Peter Stuyvesant
d)
Willem Kieft
7.

Who settled New Netherland in 1621?

a)

The English

b)

The Spanish

c)

The Dutch

d)

The Americans

8.

How did the English take New Netherland from the Dutch?

a)

The English won a war.

b)

The Dutch governor surrendered the colony.

c)

The Dutch ran away.

d)

The English paid the Dutch for the colony.

9.

What was the purpose of the colony of New Netherland?

a)

to create a beautiful place for people to live

b)

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

c)

to create long-lasting friendships with Native Americans

d)

to allow people of the Netherlands to get exciting metal tools

10.

What were the people from the Netherlands called?

a)

French

b)

English

c)

Dutch

d)

Indians

11.

The Dutch West India Company's goal was to ____.

a)

trade for furs to make money

b)

find the Northwest Passage

c)

find gold in the rivers

d)

set up schools for Native Americans

12.

A settlement with the purpose of making money for the country that controls it is called a _____.

a)

fort

b)

state

c)

post

d)

colony

13.

People who live in a colony are called "____."

a)

natives

b)

colonists

c)

traders

d)

farmers

14.

The Dutch bought ________ Island from the Native Americans.

a)

Long

b)

Wellesley

c)

Atlantis

d)

Manhattan

15.

The colony of New Netherlands was located in which 2 modern-day states?

a)

New York

b)

New Jersey

c)

New Mexico

d)

Tennessee

e)

Texas