| colonist | a person living in a country other than their homeland |
| governor | a person who controls a town or colony |
| New Netherland | the name of the Dutch colony, now New York state |
| slave | a person who is forced to work without pay |
| patroon | a person who agreed to work in exchange for travel expenses to the New World |
| bouwerie | Dutch word for farm |
| bowling | a game in which a heavy ball is rolled down a lane to knowck down pins; brought by the Dutch |
| spinning wheel | a large wheel that turns to spin thread |
| stoop | Dutch word for porch |
| tulip | flowers brought to America by the Dutch |
| windmill | grinds wheat and corn when the wind turns its wide blades |
| Fort Orange | 1st permanent settlement; now called Albany |
| New Amsterdam | what is now New York City |
| Peter Minuit | 1st governor; bought Manhattan from Algonquians for $24 |
| Peter Stuyvesant | a governor of New York who was not well liked but set up such things as police and fire departments |