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