Chapter 4 Study Guide
Define the following words:
colony
governor
patroon
petition
economy
latitude
longitude
prime meridian
equator
People & Places
Samuel de Champlain: French explorer who sailed to northern New York, naming
Lake Champlain after himself.
Henry Hudson: English explorer sailing for the Netherlands who traveled up the
river now named for him, in 1609, and reached what is now Albany.
Peter Minuit: Dutch colonial leader of New Amsterdam, now New York City, who
brought Manhattan Island for the Lenni Lenape. According to one story, he purchased
Manhattan for $24.
Lucas Santomee: Sons of a former slave, he became New Amsterdam’s first black
doctor.
Peter Stuyvesant: Governor of the Dutch colony of New Netherland.
Deborah Moody: First women to establish a town, now Gravesend, New York, in
colonial America.
New Amsterdam: Dutch settlement and trading post.
Fort Orange: Fur trading post on the Hudson River and the first Dutch settlement in
New York.
Wall Street:
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Compare & Contrast
Dutch Colony
English Colony
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