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19 Cards in this Set
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What is a colony?
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A place that is ruled by another country.
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What is an Indentured servant?
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A person who works for an employer for a period of time in return for payment of travel expenses.
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What is a merchant?
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A person who buys and sells goods.
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What is culture?
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The way of life shared by a group of people, including language, beliefs, music, foods, and holidays.
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What are taxes?
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Money people pay to the government so that it can perform public services.
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What is a govenor?
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A person who runs a colony or state?
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What is a settlement?
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A colony in its early stages.
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What is a boundary?
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Something that indicates limits.
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What is a patroon?
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A land owner in new Netherland who brought settlers to the colony to help settle his land.
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What is slavery?
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The practice of making one person the property of another.
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What does surrender mean?
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To give up
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What is traditional?
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The way something has been done or made by a group of people for a long time.
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Be able to discuss positive and negative effects that Peter stuyvesant had on new Amsterdam during his time as govenor
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Positive: make sure life was safer, made laws, started police force, importance of quality of life.
Negative: treated some people unfairly because he didn't want people to practice their religion freely, people didn't like the laws. |
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What occupation did most new yorkers have during colonial period?
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Farming
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What did early settlers have to be located near?
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A source of water.
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How did early settlers in colonial America meet their basic needs?
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Hunting and growing crops"
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Which european group was the first to settle in new York?
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Dutch
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How do you use a map scale?
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???
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How do you read and interpret a map? Make statements about the map.
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