SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
COLONIES OF FRANCE ENGLAND
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Question
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Did not resist English attack
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Fought ferociously against the English
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Put up a long siege before surrendering
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Agreed to annexation under certain conditions
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Detailed explanation-1: -Most were farmers; others were bakers, shipbuilders, millers, shopkeepers, tailors, brewers, butchers, carpenters, wheelwrights, blacksmiths, coopers, and school teachers. But almost everyone traded in furs. The colonists of New Netherland rarely used coins to buy goods and services.
Detailed explanation-2: -Dutch Governor Peter Stuyvesant surrenders New Amsterdam, the capital of New Netherland, to an English naval squadron under Colonel Richard Nicolls. Stuyvesant had hoped to resist the English, but he was an unpopular ruler, and his Dutch subjects refused to rally around him.
Detailed explanation-3: -Over two hundred years, the colony of New Netherland became the British colony of New York, which then became the independent state of New York.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1664, the English took the colony from the Dutch by force-even though the two countries were not at war and few if any shots were fired. Even after New Netherland became an English possession, Dutch settlers remained, and life in the colony did not much change.