The Dutch in the New World

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1. What name did Henry Hudson originally give to the river that would later bear his name? Delaware River Connecticut River Orange River Mauritius River

2. What year did the first Dutch colonists arrive in the New World? 1628 1624 1616 1620

3. What was the original Dutch name given to what is now called Governors Island? Block Eylant Noten Eylant Conyne Eylant Lange Eylant

4. What two forts did the Dutch build along the Hudson River that later became part of the city of Albany? Fort Amsterdam and Fort Utrecht Fort Nassau and Fort Orange Fort Beverwyck and Fort Frederick Fort Wilhelmus and Fort Goede Hoop

5. What was the name of the town the Dutch founded that would later become New York City? Wiltwyck Breukelen Nieuw Amsterdam Haarlem

6. Who was responsible for the purchase of Manhattan Island? Peter Stuyvesant Cornelius Jacobsz May Willem Kieft Peter Minuit

7. How did the West India Company try to give new life to the "Nieuw Nederland" ("New Netherland") colony? Promised 'Liberties and Exemptions' to anyone who would ship fifty colonists there at his own expense Promised Dutch convicts freedom and land Promised Dutch farmers large areas of land Promised Native American wives to Dutch bachelors

8. Who was the last Dutch governor of "Nieuw Nederland" ("New Netherland")? Willem Kieft Peter Stuyvesant Peter Minuit Wouter van Twiller

9. The Dutch built a stockade that later gave name to a famous street in New York. Which? Broadway Park Avenue Wall Street West Street

10. Which island was named after the Dutch national assembly? Staten Island Block Island Governors Island Coney Island

11. What group of people spend 12 years in The Netherlands before settling in North America? The Pilgrims The Quakers The Amish The Shakers

12. Which New York island was named because so many rabbits populated it? Bronx Island Manhattan Island Coney Island Long Island

13. Which of the New York City boroughs or neighbourhoods does not have a name of Dutch origin? The Bronx Harlem Queens Brooklyn

14. Which island was named after the first European to enter the Long Island Sound and the Connecticut River? Coney Island Long Island Manhattan Island Block Island

15. How is Pennsylvania Dutch related to the present day Dutch? It developed from the Dutch that sailors who came to the New World spoke. It is a mixture of the Dutch the early colonists spoke and of the French spoken by the Huguenots who fled there. It is a mixture of the Dutch the early colonists spoke with English after the British took over the colony. None of these