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| New Amsterdam | A city that grew up around Fort Amsterdam at the tip of Manhatten |
| Fort Orange | the 1st permanent Europen settlement in New York |
| Patroon | a land owner in New Netherlands who had to bring 50 settlers to the colony to help settle his land |
| Governor | a person who runs a colony or state |
| New Netherland | Dutch colony that included parts of presnet day New York, New Jersey and Delaware |
| colonist | a person who lives in a colony |
| colony | a place that is ruled by another colony |
| Dutch West India company | the Dutch Trading Company that set up the colony of New Netherland |
| tax | money people pay to the government so that it can perform public service |
| freedom of the press | the right of people to print or tell news |
| indentured servant | a person who works for an employer in return for payment of travel expenses |
| Peter Stuyvesant | governor of New Amsterdam for 17 years |
| culture | the way of life shared by a group of people, including language, beliefs, music, food, and holidays |
| slavery | the practice of making one person the property of another |
| manor | a large place of land that the owner rents in smaller plots to a number of farmers ts to |
| tenant farmer | a farmer who works land owned by someone else and pays rent in either cash or shares of produce |
| gristmill | a place where grain is ground into flour |
| merchant | a person who buys and sells goods |
| double house | a house with a business on the ground floor and a home upstairs |
| New Paltz | a village in the Hudson River Valley first settled by Huguenot immigrants |
| New Rochelle | a city on Long Island Sound first settled in 1688 by Huguenots |
| Rhinebeck | a village on the east bank of the Hudson River in Southeaster New York |
