| A | B |
|---|
| Dutch West India Company | A company set up by the Dutch as a way of getting settlers to North America |
| Colony | settlement ruled by another country |
| Colonist | the people who lived in the colony |
| Governor | Person in charge of a colony |
| Patroon | A person who owned land because he brought 50 settlers to a colony |
| Peter Minuit | Governor that bought Manhattan from the Lenni Lenape |
| Peter Stuyvesant | Governor who made laws that made life safer |
| New Netherland | 1st Dutch colony that became New York state |
| Fort Orange | 1st European settlement that became Albany |
| New Amsterdam | became New York city |
| Tax | money paid to the government to perform services |
| Freedom of the press | the right of people to print or tell the news (due to John Peter Zenger) |
| Richard Nicolls | 1st British governor of New York |
| Martha Tunstall Smith | Began a whaling business in Long Island |
| Samuel Townsend | had a small fleet of ships in Long Island |
| New York | named after The Duke of York |
