USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer: Under Peter Stuyvesant’s rule as governor, the colonists of New Netherland had to live with poor sanitation. had full religious freedom. were forced to pay high taxes. were not allowed to have enslaved workers.

Detailed explanation-2: -Petrus Stuyvesant is best known as New Netherland’s longest, most influential, and last Dutch governor, having served until the English overthrew the colony’s Dutch administration and renamed it New York in 1664. Stuyvesant helped make New Amsterdam more orderly and economically successful than it had ever been.

Detailed explanation-3: -Stuyvesant was rather authoritarian with his subjects and he is frequently depicted as despotic. He refused to share power with the citizens of the new colony of New Amsterdam. He also tried to control the Dutch Reformed Church and even banned some of its ministers from the colony.

Detailed explanation-4: -Stuyvesant’s accomplishments as director-general included a great expansion for the settlement of New Amsterdam beyond the southern tip of Manhattan. Among the projects built by Stuyvesant’s administration were the protective wall on Wall Street, the canal that became Broad Street, and Broadway.

Detailed explanation-5: -2) List three problems Peter Stuyvesant found when he arrived in New Amsterdam? drunkenness and fighting in the streets, even on the Sabbath [day of worship], which was supposed to be a day of quiet and prayer.