Chapter 4 Practice

People who agreed to work in New Netherland for a certain amount of time until they could pay off the cost of their boat ride were called

• slaves
• governors
• indentured servants
• colonists

A person or leader who is in control of a town or colony is a 

• governor
• slave
• indentured servant
• colonist

Which angry, stern governor started many new laws in New Amsterdam and also made a fire department and public schools?

• Peter Minuit
• Henry Hudson
• Peter Stuyvesant
• Willem Kieft

Which of the following was NOT a chore of Dutch women?

• sewing clothes for the family
• cooking dinner
• warming the children's beds with bricks
• working in the rattle watch

Which man was the governor of New Amsterdam and did many things to make the colony a safer place to live?

• Peter Minuit

• John Cabot

• Henry Hudson

• Peter Stuyvesant

True or False: New Netherland is located in Europe.

• True

• False

True or False: The people living in New Netherland easily surrendered (gave up) the colony to the English.

• True

• False

What was a patroon?

• Someone who worked as a fur trader.

• Someone who paid for 50 settlers to move to New Netherland.

• Someone who found the Northwest Passage.

• Someone who explored the Hudson River.

The first governor of New Netherland was _____________________. He allegedly bought Manhattan from the Lenni Lenape tribe.

• Henry Hudson

• Peter Stuyvesant

• Peter Minuit

• Christopher Columbus

A ____________ is a leader or person in charge.

• colonist

• colony

• governor

• Dutch West India Company