chapter 6 study guide

Chapter 6 Study Guide

1. What did the Dutch call their colony in North America?

New Netherlands


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. What were the Society of Friends (Quakers) beliefs?

People are basically good and violence was wrong. They were pacifists.


4. How did Pennsylvania get its name?

Penn’s Woods


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. Define the term immigrant. Person who comes to a country to make a

new home there.


7. Name a few contributions of German immigrants.

Conestoga wagon, PA rifle, barn raising


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. Define Piedmont

The foothills between the lowlands along the

Atlantic coast and the Appalachian Mountains.


10. How did many settlers reach the back country?

They followed the Great Wagon Road from PA.


11. Which immigrant groups settled Pennsylvania?

Quakers, Irish Catholics, German Lutherans,

Jews, and free Africans


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. Where did the first group of Jewish immigrants settle in North America?

New Amsterdam


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. Who organized the first firefighting company in the colonies?

Ben Franklin

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