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European Explorers
Social Studies - Chapter 4
Term | Definition |
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explorer | someone who travel to unknown places to discover new things |
colony | a place that is ruled by another country |
New Netherland | a Dutch colony |
Fort Orange | a fur trading post up the Hudson River |
New Amsterdam | a settlement in New Netherland, current day Manhattan |
Peter Minuit | bought Manhattan from the Lenni Lenape |
Northwest Passage | a water route to Asia through North America |
Deborah Moody | first woman to begin a settlement in colonial America |
Lucas Santomee | New Amsterdam's first black doctor |
profit | the earnings that remain after subtracting the cost of making and selling a product |
patroon | a landowner that would pay to bring someone to New Netherland to work on their land |
Peter Stuyvesant | governor of New Amsterdam |
economy | a system for producing and delivering goods |
William Kidd | hired to fight pirates, but turned to piracy himself |
Samuel de Champlain | traveled to what is now northern New York and name a large lake after himself |
Albany | used to be Fort Orange |
Long Island | a whaling center / Captain Kidd buried treasure on its coast |
governor | leader of a colony or state |
petition | a written request given to an official |
Dutch West India Company | a company who had the goal of setting up a Dutch colony in North America |