 - 1. Who inhabited the area of present-day New York City in the pre-Columbian era?
A) The Spanish
B) The Dutch
C) Algonquians
D) The English
- 2. What was the homeland of the Lenape people called?
A) Nouvelle Angoulême
B) Lenapehoking
C) New Netherland
D) Manhattan
- 3. Who was the first European to document a visit to New York Harbor?
A) Estêvão Gomes
B) Giovanni da Verrazzano
C) Peter Minuit
D) Henry Hudson
- 4. What did Giovanni da Verrazzano name the New York Harbor area?
A) Río de San Antonio
B) Mauritius
C) Nouvelle Angoulême
D) New Amsterdam
- 5. What name did Estêvão Gomes give to the Hudson River?
A) New Angoulême
B) North River
C) Río de San Antonio
D) Mauritius
- 6. In what year did Henry Hudson rediscover New York Harbor?
A) 1609
B) 1614
C) 1524
D) 1625
- 7. For which organization was Henry Hudson searching for the Northwest Passage?
A) Dutch East India Company
B) Dutch West India Company
C) Spanish Crown
D) French Monarchy
- 8. What was the first non-Native American inhabitant of what became New York City?
A) Peter Stuyvesant
B) Peter Minuit
C) Henry Hudson
D) Juan Rodriguez
- 9. In what year was a permanent European settlement established near New York Harbor?
A) 1624
B) 1609
C) 1614
D) 1653
- 10. Where was the first Dutch fur trading settlement established?
A) Governors Island
B) Wall Street
C) Long Island
D) Manhattan Island
- 11. What was the name of the fortification built on Manhattan Island in 1625?
A) Wall Street Stockade
B) Fort Amsterdam
C) New Angoulême
D) New Netherland
- 12. Why was a wooden stockade built on Wall Street in 1653?
A) To define the boundary of the patroon system
B) To serve as a trading post
C) To store fur pelts
D) To protect against Native American and English raids
- 13. Who purchased the island of Manhattan from the Canarsie?
A) Henry Hudson
B) Peter Minuit
C) Peter Stuyvesant
D) Juan Rodriguez
- 14. What was the official price paid for Manhattan Island in 1626?
A) 24 dollars
B) 60 guilders
C) 900 guilders
D) 60 beads
- 15. What year was the patroon system instituted to attract settlers?
A) 1628
B) 1653
C) 1614
D) 1639
- 16. How many colonists did a patroon have to bring to be awarded land?
A) 50
B) 12
C) 100
D) 60
- 17. Which company held an exclusive monopoly over colonization in New Netherland?
A) British East India Company
B) Dutch West India Company
C) Dutch East India Company
D) French West India Company
- 18. Who was the last director-general of New Netherland?
A) Juan Rodriguez
B) Henry Hudson
C) Peter Minuit
D) Peter Stuyvesant
- 19. To what number did the population of New Netherland grow during Stuyvesant's tenure?
A) 12
B) 60
C) 2,000
D) 8,000
- 20. What was one of the regulations Peter Stuyvesant instituted?
A) Religious freedom for all
B) A free press
C) Liquor sales regulations
D) The abolition of slavery
- 21. What is the most populous city in the United States?
A) Los Angeles
B) Houston
C) Chicago
D) New York City
- 22. Where is New York City located?
A) In the center of New York State
B) Along the Great Lakes
C) On the border of Canada
D) At the southern tip of New York State
- 23. How many boroughs comprise New York City?
A) Three
B) Five
C) Four
D) Six
- 24. Which city is the second-most populous in the United States?
A) Chicago
B) Los Angeles
C) Phoenix
D) Houston
- 25. How many languages are estimated to be spoken in New York City?
A) 1,000
B) 500
C) 800
D) 100
- 26. When was the modern city formed by the consolidation of its five boroughs?
A) 1664
B) 1785
C) 1898
D) 1626
- 27. In what year was the settlement named New Amsterdam?
A) 1653
B) 1664
C) 1626
D) 1624
- 28. New York City served as the national capital of the United States between which years?
A) 1785–1790
B) 1790–1800
C) 1800–1805
D) 1776–1785
- 29. What is the name of the ultra-luxury international shopping corridor mentioned in the text?
A) Broadway
B) Wall Street
C) Park Avenue
D) Fifth Avenue
- 30. Who was New York named after in 1664?
A) James I
B) The King of the Netherlands
C) The Duke of York
D) Charles II
- 31. What was the previous name of the Province of New York?
A) New Amsterdam
B) Lenape Territory
C) Fort Amsterdam
D) New Netherland
- 32. Which borough is coextensive with New York County?
A) Manhattan
B) Queens
C) Brooklyn
D) The Bronx
- 33. In what year did Stuyvesant surrender New Amsterdam to the English?
A) 1664
B) 1667
C) 1702
D) 1673
- 34. Who led the English troops when New Amsterdam was surrendered?
A) Cornelis Evertsen
B) Anthony Colve
C) Richard Nicolls
D) William III
- 35. What was the population of the Lenape by the year 1700?
A) 200
B) 1,000
C) 500
D) 10,000
- 36. What percentage of the population did New York lose to a yellow fever epidemic in 1702?
A) 42%
B) 10%
C) 20%
D) 5%
- 37. By 1730, what percentage of New York households enslaved Africans?
A) 60%
B) 10%
C) 25%
D) 42%
- 38. What was discovered during construction in Foley Square in the 1990s?
A) African Burying Ground
B) Original City Hall
C) The Stamp Act headquarters
D) Stuyvesant's Fort
- 39. In what year was Columbia University founded?
A) 1754
B) 1664
C) 1783
D) 1735
- 40. The Stamp Act Congress met in New York in which year?
A) 1754
B) 1783
C) 1776
D) 1765
- 41. Where was the Battle of Long Island fought?
A) Modern-day Brooklyn
B) Staten Island
C) New Jersey
D) Manhattan
- 42. Which major church was destroyed in the Great Fire of New York?
A) Trinity Church
B) Old North Church
C) St. Paul's Chapel
D) Grace Church
- 43. After the British evacuated New York in 1783, where were many freedmen transported?
A) Amsterdam
B) France
C) The American South
D) Nova Scotia
- 44. Where was the first United States President inaugurated?
A) Federal Hall
B) Philadelphia
C) Central Park
D) The Capitol
- 45. Which city did New York City surpass in population to become the nation's largest in 1790?
A) Philadelphia
B) Boston
C) Washington, D.C.
D) Baltimore
- 46. In what year was slavery completely abolished in New York State?
A) 1860
B) 1827
C) 1799
D) 1840
- 47. What project connected the Atlantic port to the agricultural markets of the North American interior?
A) Federal Hall
B) Central Park
C) Hudson River Railroad
D) Erie Canal
- 48. Which political machine dominated local politics and was supported by Irish and German immigrants?
A) The Federalist Party
B) Tammany Hall
C) The Manumission Society
D) The Whig Party
- 49. In what year was New York University founded?
A) 1858
B) 1811
C) 1825
D) 1831
- 50. When did Central Park open as the first landscaped park in an American city?
A) 1858
B) 1840
C) 1831
D) 1860
- 51. By 1860, Irish immigrants represented what portion of New York City's population?
A) Ten percent
B) Over a quarter
C) Three quarters
D) Half
- 52. What percentage of the population did German immigrants comprise in New York City by 1860?
A) 50%
B) 5%
C) 10%
D) 25%
- 53. Until what age were male children born to enslaved mothers required to serve as indentured servants under the 1799 act?
A) 25
B) 28
C) 21
D) 30
- 54. Which U.S. President was inaugurated in New York City?
A) James Madison
B) George Washington
C) Thomas Jefferson
D) John Adams
- 55. In January 1861, which New York City mayor proposed that the city secede to become an independent 'free city'?
A) Abraham Lincoln
B) Fiorello La Guardia
C) Fernando Wood
D) Gerald Ford
- 56. What specific building was burned to the ground during the 1863 Draft Riots?
A) The Stonewall Inn
B) Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
C) The World Trade Center
D) The Colored Orphan Asylum
- 57. When was the Statue of Liberty dedicated in New York Harbor?
A) 1863
B) 1904
C) 1920
D) 1886
- 58. Which city did New York City overtake to become the world's most populous urbanized area in the early 1920s?
A) London
B) Paris
C) Berlin
D) Tokyo
- 59. In 1969, where did the riots occur that are considered central to the gay liberation movement?
A) Ellis Island
B) Stonewall Inn
C) Zuccotti Park
D) Times Square
- 60. In what year did New York City's population pass 8 million for the first time?
A) 1990
B) 2000
C) 2010
D) 1980
- 61. How many people died in the September 11 attacks in 2001?
A) 5,000
B) 2,753
C) 1,021
D) 146
- 62. What is the height of One World Trade Center in feet, representing a symbolic reference?
A) 1,776
B) 2,001
C) 1,901
D) 1,886
- 63. In what year did the Occupy Wall Street protests begin in Zuccotti Park?
A) 2008
B) 2012
C) 2011
D) 2001
- 64. Which hurricane heavily impacted New York City in October 2012?
A) Hurricane Katrina
B) The Great Blizzard
C) Hurricane Sandy
D) Hurricane Irene
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