New Netherlands (Dutch) Vocabulary Notecards

A person who works for another without pay, for a set period of time to repay his/her passage to the New World

• Indentured servant

• Freeman

• Sharecropper

• Tenant farmer

The buying and selling of goods

• commerce

• trade

• barter

• retail

A permanent residence

• settlement

• temporary housing

• vacation home

• transient lodging

A variety or differences

• diverse

• uniform

• similar

• identical

A Dutch landowner who brought fifty new settlers to the colony

• patroon

• settler

• governor

• trader

A powerful trading company that established the colony of New Netherlands

• Dutch East India Company

• British East India Company

• French West India Company

• Dutch West India Company

A settlement made by people who leave their own country to settle in another land

• colony

• empire

• territory

• province

Someone who is forced to work for the rest of his/her life without freedom

• serf

• indentured servant

• slave

• prisoner

To become rich and powerful

• prosperous

• destitute

• mediocre

• impoverished

Long-lasting

• temporary

• transient

• permanent

• fleeting