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| a friend whith shom one is united for a common purpose |
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| 1560 Italian sea captain and explorere. Saling under the flag of Spain, he reached the Americas in search of a sea route to Asia in 1492 |
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| Italian sea captain and explorer. Saling under the flag of France he arrived in New York in 1524 |
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| French explorer who traveled from the Atlantic up the St. Lawerence River |
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| French explorer who founded Quebec in 1608 and discovered Lake Champlain in 1609 |
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| English Sea Captain and explorer. Working for a dutch trading company, he sailed by the Hudson River in 1609 as far north as present day Albany |
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| Bay in south New York at the Hudson River wherer it flows into the Atlantic Ocean. |
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| River on the border of the US and Canada that connects the Great Lakes with the Altantic Ocean |
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| city in Canada on the St. Lawrence River |
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| long aarrow lake in northeren New York. Forms part of the border with Vermont |
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| a measure of distance on earach north or south of the equator |
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| a unit for measuring distance on earch's surgace, also a unit for measuring temperature. |
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| a measuring of distance on earth , east or west of the prime meridian |
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| the line of longitude, makred 0 degree, from which other meridians are numbered |
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| the crisscrossing lines of lattitude and longitude on a map or a globe |
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| the crisscrossing lines of lattitude and longitude on a map or a globe |
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| the crisscrossing lines of lattitude and longitude on a map or a globe |
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| the crisscrossing lines of lattitude and longitude on a map or a globe |
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| The Dutch Trading Company was the set up the colony of New Netherlands |
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| a pleace that is ruled by another country |
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| a person who lives in a colony |
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| a person who runs a colony or state |
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| a land owner in New Netherlands who had to bring 50 settlers to the colony to help settle his land |
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| 1580-1638. Dutch colonial governor of New Netherland who bought Manhattan Island from Lennin Lenape |
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| 1610-1672; Governor of New Netherland from 1647 until 1664, when Great Britain took over |
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| Dutch colony in North America that included parts of present day New York, New Jersey and Delaware. |
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| First Dutch settlement in New York; the location is now Albany |
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| First Dutch settlement in New York; the location is now Albany |
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| Dutch settlement stared in 1625 on ManhatanIsland, which became NYC |
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| money people pay to the government so that it can perform public services |
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| the right of people to print or tell the news |
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| First British governonr of New York |
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| Newspaper printer whose trail in 1734 was an important step toward freedom of the press |
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| Owner and manager of a whaling comany on Long Island |
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| Long Island trader who sold items in NYC |
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| City at the south of the Hudson River; largest city in the country and an important port and business center |
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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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| the way of life shared by a group of people, including language, beliefs, music, foods and hoidays |
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| the practice of making one person the property of another |
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| a large piece of land that the owner rents in smaller plots to a number of farmers |
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| a farmer who works the land owned by the Governor. Pays rent in either cash or shares of produce |
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| a place where grain is ground into flour |
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| a person who buys and sells goods |
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| A house with a business on the ground floor and a home upstairs. |
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| a wealthy landowner in NY. He and his wife,Margaret, and set up Philispsburg |
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| Margaret Hardenbreak Philipse |
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| a successful fur trader and ship owner who began a shipping line between New Amsterdam and Europe. She and her husband, Frederick, set up Philipsburg Manor. |
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| Powerful landowner who owned a 160,000 acre manor in the Hudson River Valley |
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| village in the Hudson River Valley first settled by Huguots immigrants |
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| city on long island sound, first settled in 1688 by Hugonots |
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| Village ont he east bank of the Hudson river in southeastern New York |
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