Jeopardy A?B?C?D?E? $100 $200 $300 $400 $500

ANSWER This group migrated to New Paltz from France in 1678

QUESTION Who are: The Huguenots

ANSWER This group migrated to the old Dutch town that they renamed Rhinebeck

QUESTION Who are: The Germans

ANSWER This group introduced ice skating to New York

QUESTION Who are: The Dutch

ANSWER This is what happened to the African American population in New York during the 1700’s. Hint: Think high or low

QUESTION What is: The population increased because enslaved Africans were brought to New York from Africa

ANSWER TRUE OR FALSE: Enslaved people tried to gain freedom by voting to make slavery illegal.

QUESTION What is: FALSE! Nope! THERE WAS NO WAY ENSLAVED AFRICANS WERE GOING TO BE ALLOWED ANY PRIVILEGES!

ANSWER TRUE OR FALSE: Being a farmer is a service job.

QUESTION What is: WOW is that FALSE! Doctors, mail carriers and teachers are service jobs. Farming is not considered a service job.

ANSWER TRUE OR FALSE: Sugar was a good made from New York’s natural resources.

QUESTION What is: FALSE, FALSE, FALSE! Sugar is not a natural resource in New York State. Beef, wheat and wood ARE goods made from Natural Resources IN NEW YORK STATE, but NOT sugar!

ANSWER This was a common way that merchants made a living in colonial New York

QUESTION What is: By trading goods. Merchants traded and sold products

ANSWER New York’s first chocolate factory was build in this city in 1726

QUESTION What is: Albany! Let’s go there! Miss Menard’s favorite…chocolate.

ANSWER The story that we have been reading this week.

QUESTION What is: Eye of the Storm

ANSWER A large piece of land owned by one landowner is called this

QUESTION What is: A Manor

ANSWER This is the number of months out of the year children in colonial New York usually attended school

QUESTION What is: Three months. The other months the children were helping out on the farm. They were too busy doing chores to go to school. IMAGINE THAT!

ANSWER This is how schools were funded in colonial New York. Hint: Funded means who they got their money to pay for school to be open

QUESTION What is: Families had to pay the teacher

ANSWER These young people learned skills that helped them earn a living as an adult. They were called this

QUESTION What are: An apprentice

ANSWER TRUE OR FALSE: Young people, as apprentices, learned how to be governors.

QUESTION What is: NO, NO, NO! Let’s not get EVERYONE upset, now! Young people apprenticed to be tailors, carpenters, and shoemakers, BUT NOT Governors!

ANSWER A worker with a special skill is called this

QUESTION What is: An artisan

ANSWER Someone who works with a more experienced person to learn a skill is called this

QUESTION What is: An apprentice

ANSWER A job that helps people is this type of job

QUESTION What is: A service job

ANSWER A person who worked for a certain amount of time in exchange for a boat trip to America was called this

QUESTION What is: An indentured servant

ANSWER The buying and selling of enslaved people

QUESTION Who is: The slave trade

ANSWER This is a person who buys and sells goods to make money

QUESTION What is: A merchant

ANSWER The name of the people and laws that run a place such as a colony, city, state, or country.

QUESTION What is: The government

ANSWER The name of the first African American to publish a poem

QUESTION Who is: Jupiter Hammon

ANSWER This person was put on trial for printing opinions that the governor did not like

QUESTION Who is: John Peter Zenger

ANSWER The person owned a 160,000-acre piece of land south of Albany. His wife, Alida, ran a store and mill at his manor

QUESTION Who is: Robert Livingston, I presume!