USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1621, the Dutch government chartered the West India Company with the goal both of bringing order to economic activity in New Netherland and of challenging Spanish influence in the New World. Colonists arrived in New Netherland from all over Europe. Many fled religious persecution, war, or natural disaster.

Detailed explanation-2: -Commander Peter Heyes brought a colony of 30 settlers to Delaware Bay in April of 1631. Heyes landed his people a few miles above Cape Henlopen, built a brick house and called the area Swaanendael. It included a tract of land twelve miles square that he had purchased from the local tribes.

Detailed explanation-3: -Amid the Netherlands’ emergence as a major maritime and commercial power, the colony was conceived by the Dutch West India Company (GWC) in 1621 to capitalize on the North American fur trade.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Dutch gave up the colony without a fight. The breaking point came in March 1664, when English King Charles II awarded the colony’s land to his brother, the Duke of York, even though the two countries were then technically at peace.

Detailed explanation-5: -New Netherland was established in 1614 as the first Dutch colony in North America, and spanned parts of what is now New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, and Delaware.