USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -New Amsterdam was the capital of New Netherland, a Dutch colony that stretched along the Atlantic Ocean between British colonies in Massachusetts and Virginia. The first settlers arrived in 1624 and quickly established Fort Orange, up the Hudson River near modern Albany, New York, and Fort Amsterdam.

Detailed explanation-2: -New Netherland was the first Dutch colony in North America. It extended from Albany, New York, in the north to Delaware in the south and encompassed parts of what are now the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, and Delaware.

Detailed explanation-3: -New Netherland The settlements were initially located on the Hudson River: Fort Nassau (1614–7) in present-day Albany (later resettled as Fort Orange in 1624), and New Amsterdam, founded in 1625, on Manhattan Island.

Detailed explanation-4: -New Amsterdam became the seat of New Netherland government. In the fifty-five years that followed, the Dutch colony drew immigrants from all over Europe as it developed socially, and politically, and economically, offering a strategic point for trade.

Detailed explanation-5: -Soon Dutch colonists were claiming land as far north as present day Albany, New York; as far south as to include all of present day New Jersey; to Cape Henlopen, Delaware; and as far east as the Connecticut River.