Dutch West India Company

The Dutch West India Company settled New Netherlands, and the Dutch bought Manhattan. New Netherland was aristocratic and feudal. England seized the colony from the Dutch and turned it into New York after the Duke of York, giving England control from Maine to the Carolinas. The Director General of New Netherlands. Many of his acts were against popular will. He was authoritarian and not well liked by his people and others. He ordered a general election, reorganized the colony, tried to settle border

In 1624 the Dutch West India Company sent a ship carrying 30 Belgian families to settle the territory claimed in 1609. This territory was claimed by the English explorer, employed by the Dutch, Henry Hudson, as New Netherland. The Dutch, in order to ensure peace with the natives, ‘bought’ the island of Manhattan from the local Lenape Indians. The Lenape, who did not understand the European view of property ownership thought they were signing an agreement of mutual ownership of the land. This is just

the Europeans colonies were all different, as the Dutch solely came for business transactions. The Dutch business transactions resulted in the change of economic, political, and social movements, changing the lives of the Native’s. The intentions of the Dutch in the New World were very different from the rest of the Europeans that had arrived in the New World. As the Europeans like the British and French wanted to establish colonies inland, the Dutch wanted to stay along the shore and not be part of

the typically religious tolerant Dutch. This petition is a way for the Jewish people to contact the Dutch West India Company to address the fact that they are making it more difficult for the Jewish people to travel and live in another country. During this period multiple things were happening with the British colonies and with Great Britain itself. Some of these things include the first set of slave codes, the colonization of the Carolinas, Georgia, and East and West Jersey, but the two that I will

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” (Brainy Quote, 2016). The inspiring pome that graces the Statue of Liberty was written by a Jewish poet Emma Lazarus, a decedent of the first Jews to arrive in the North American colonies in the 1650s. For centuries Jewish people have lived in a great deal of places far from their ancestral home in the Middle East, always searching for a home. Like a lot of religious minorities, Jews saw America as a special place where

Ch. 3: Settling the Northern Colonies (1619-1700) The Protestant Reformation Produces Puritanism King Henry VIII led the Protestant Reformation, but John Calvin was the one who really took protestantism further, which made the English leave England and go to America. -When Martin Luther posted the 95 theses, that led to the protestant reformation. -John Calvin was the leader of “Calvinism”, which focused on predestination. -Conversion was a religious event that placed you as either and “elect”

The Dutch West India Company and its importance in trade; including the African slave trade. The citizens of New Amsterdam had little to no say in governmental decisions. At times, there were citizen advisory boards created, and a director-general that made decisions, but for the most part even these issues were at the mercy of the Dutch West India Company's control. More specifically, the commander and ruler named Peter Stuyvesant was the director general that made all the Dutch West India Company's

legacy of the Dutch and their founding of New Amsterdam can still be seen in the marvelous city of New York City. The Dutch built Fort Amsterdam due to fear of English invasion and Native American incursions, and the first northern, earthen wall has become the economic center of the world, Wall Street. This is just one instance of the lasting impact the Dutch would have on the modern city of New York. As noted by Joyce Goodfriend, in Revisiting New Netherland Perspectives on Early Dutch America It is

in 1880 because this is where I am going to establish a trading post at Fort orange! When I came over with the Dutch West India company on a long sailing journey from the half moon to build the Fort orange at fort orange , the Fort orange ten years later, Many different families came to the trading post to settle a settlement. This is where the I and other people from the dutch tribe gave many trading rights to Holland. The Fort orange trading post is where people traded fur. Our group just

Indian and European Conflict in the New World Since 1492 to late into the17th the century there was perpetual struggle between the power hungry Europeans and the natives in the New World. Pitted against each other, the Dutch, English, French, Spaniards, and Indians struggled to maintain control of what they viewed as rightfully theirs. The English, were struggling to settle on the eastern coast and had no use and respect for the Indians or their land and way of life. At first maintaining a