History of New York Sept 8 - Sept 16

Quiz # 1:

1. Why were the Dutch so interested in the area they would name New Amsterdam?

2. Describe the social composition of the first Dutch trading settlement

3. What month in the year 1609 did Henry Hudson sail into New York Harbor?

4. Extra Credit: What was the exact date?

5. True or False: the name of the Native Americans Henry Hudson encountered were the Lenape

6. True or False: The word lenape in the Lenape language translates as “the people.”

7. In Lenape, the phrase Lenni Lenape translates as “We the people.”  Based on your knowledge of US History, why is that interesting?

8. True or False: The Dutch built churches right away, as soon as they arrived on Manhattan

9. Extra Credit: In what about what year was the first Dutch church built? (1626)
10. What was the Dutch Revolt and how did it motivate Holland to seek business interests in the New World?

Homework and Extra Credit #1
Who were the Lenape?
What was the Dutch Revolt?

Homework #2
In a short autobiographical composition, describe what it is like for you to live in New York.


Extra Credit #3
Give a 5 - 11 minute presentation on who Peter Stuyvesant was