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Settling New York
social studies vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Giovanni da Verrazano | first European to reach NY |
| Christopher Columbus | discovered that the world was round, not flat |
| Samuel de Champlain | battled with the Iroquois and made the Iroquois enemies of the French |
| Henry Hudson | claimed the Hudson River and the surrounding land for the Dutch |
| Fort Orange | first European settlement in NY |
| Albany | originally called Fort Orange |
| New York City | originally called New Amsterdam |
| The Dutch West India Company | set up the colony of New Netherland to trade with the Native Americans |
| England (Great Britian) | country that took over New Netherland without firing a shot |
| Peter Minuit | governor of New Netherland who bought Manhattan from the Lenni Lenape |
| Peter Stuyvesant | governor of New Netherland who started a fire department and a night watch |
| John Peter Zenger | had a victory in court that was a great step for freedom of the press |
| Freedom of the Press | the right of people to print or tell the news |
| manor | a large piece of land that an owner rents in smaller parts to farmers |
| double house | a building where a home is upstairs and a business is downstairs |
| tax | money paid to the govenment so that it can perform services |
| governor | person in charge of a colony |
| colony | a settlement ruled by another country |
| ally | a friend with whom one is united for a common purpose |
| culture | the way of life of a people |
| patroons | landwoners who promise to help settle 50 families on their land |
| gristmill | a place where grain is ground into flour |
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