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| The Dutch West India Company |
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| The Dutch trading company that set up the colony of New Netherland |
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| a place 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 Netherland who had to bring 50 settlers to the colony to help settle the land |
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| Dutch colonial governor of New Netherland who bought Manhatten Island from Lenni Lanape |
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| Governor of New Netherland from 1647 until 1664 when Great Britain took over |
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| first Dutch settlement in New York; the location is now Albany |
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| Dutch settlement started in 1625 on Manhatten Island which became New York City |
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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 governor of New York |
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| Newspaper printer whose trial in 1734 was an important step towards freedom of the press |
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| 1700s owner and manager of a whaling company on Long Island |
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| Long Island trader who sold items in New York |
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| a person who works for an employer for a period of time in return for payment of services |
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| the way of life shared by a group of people including language, beliefs, music, foods, and holidays |
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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 land owned by someone else and pays rent with part of their crops or with cash |
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| a place when grain is grounded into flour |
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| people who bought and sold goods, owned boats. They shipped the goods up and down the Hudson River and some traded goods all over the world |
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| a house with a business on the ground floor and a home upstairs |
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