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Chapter 6 Study Guide

Chapter 6 Study Guide. 1. What did the Dutch call their colony in North America? New Netherlands. Chapter 6 Study Guide. 2. Why did the English want control of the Dutch colony? The English colonies wanted to expand in the direction of the Dutch colony. Chapter 6 Study Guide.

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Chapter 6 Study Guide

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  1. Chapter 6 Study Guide • 1. What did the Dutch call their colony in North America? • New Netherlands

  2. Chapter 6 Study Guide • 2. Why did the English want control of the Dutch colony? • The English colonies wanted to expand in the direction of the Dutch colony.

  3. Chapter 6 Study Guide • 3. What were the Society of Friends (Quakers) beliefs? • People are basically good and violence was wrong. They were pacifists.

  4. Chapter 6 Study Guide • 4. How did Pennsylvania get its name? • Penn’s Woods

  5. Chapter 6 Study Guide • 5. Define the right to trial by jury. • The right of people accused of breaking the law to be tried by a group of fellow citizens.

  6. Chapter 6 Study Guide • 6. Define the term immigrant. • Person who comes to a country to make a new home there.

  7. Chapter 6 Study Guide • 7. Name a few contributions of German immigrants. • Conestoga wagon, PA rifle, barn raising

  8. Chapter 6 Study Guide • 8. Who wrote Poor Richard’s Almanac, a book published each year with a calendar, weather forecasts, stories, jokes and wise sayings. • Ben Franklin

  9. Chapter 6 Study Guide • 9. Define Piedmont • The foothills between the lowlands along the Atlantic coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

  10. Chapter 6 Study Guide • 10. How did many settlers reach the back country? • They followed the Great Wagon Road from PA.

  11. Chapter 6 Study Guide • 11. Which immigrant groups settled Pennsylvania? • Quakers, Irish Catholics, German Lutherans, Jews, and free Africans

  12. Chapter 6 Study Guide • 12. How did the settlers in the backcountry plant their food? • The settlers planted in the Indian way, with corn, beans, and squash all growing from the same mound.

  13. Chapter 6 Study Guide • 13. Where did the first group of Jewish immigrants settle in North America? • New Amsterdam

  14. Chapter 6 Study Guide • 14. Describe the take-over of New Netherlands by the English, such as was it fiercely fought over or was there no resistance. • There was little to no resistance because the settlers disliked Peter Stuyvesant’s harsh rule.

  15. Chapter 6 Study Guide • 15. Who organized the first firefighting company in the colonies? • Ben Franklin

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