| Term |
Description |
| cooper | craftsman who makes barrels |
| William Penn | was given land in America by King Charles II as payment for a debt the king owed to his father |
| Henry Hudson | explorer who first claimed the New York area for the Dutch |
| Peter Stuyvesant | governor of New Amsterdam who was not well liked by his people |
| Quakers | members of a peaceful religious group that supported freedom of religion and were against war |
| Governor Island | small island in New York Harbor that was once used as a retreat for government officials |
| Delaware | colony first settled by the Swedes as a farming community |
| New Jersey | colony originally divided into two parts with two separate governments |
| Manhattan | island bought the Dutch bought from the American Indians for small items worth about $24.00 |
| New Amsterdam | New York was first called by this name when it was under Dutch control |
| Pennsylvania | means Penn's Woods |
