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