SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
NEW NETHERLANDS
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to create a beautiful place for people to live
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to create a place that would make money for the country called the Netherlands
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to create long-lasting friendships with Native Americans
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to allow people of the Netherlands to get exciting metal tools
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Detailed explanation-1: -New Netherland had been conceived as a private business venture to exploit the North American fur trade. By the 1650s, the colony had experienced dramatic growth and become a major port for trade in the North Atlantic. At its height, about 9, 000 people lived in the colony of New Netherland.
Detailed explanation-2: -Settlers were attracted to the colony’s promises of freedom of worship, local self-government, and free land that would remain tax-exempt for ten years.
Detailed explanation-3: -French and Dutch colonizers focused on trading furs with Native American tribes in North America.
Detailed explanation-4: -The initial trading factory gave rise to the settlement around Fort Amsterdam. The fort was situated on the strategic southern tip of the island of Manhattan and was meant to defend the fur trade operations of the Dutch West India Company in the North River (Hudson River).
Detailed explanation-5: -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. It remained distinctively Dutch.