Dutch Colony of New Netherland
Peter Stuyvesant was the governor of New Amsterdam after Peter Minuit who returned peace with the Native Americans and improved the conditions of the colony.
Who was Peter Stuyvesant?
To restore order to New Amsterdam
Why did the Dutch West India Company send Peter Stuyvesant?
The Dutch believed they had no chance against the many English warships and the English soldiers outnumbered the Dutch.
Why did the Dutch surrender New Netherland to the English?
Tools, knives, axes, metal pots and woven cloth
The Dutch and the Native Americans benefited from trade. What did the Dutch give to the Native Americans?
Beaver and other animal skins
The Dutch and the Native Americans benefited from trade. What did the Dutch trade for?
Netherlands
What country did the Dutch people come from?
They gave land to anyone who promised to bring 50 families to the land along the Hudson River.
What did the Dutch West India Company do to encourage the Dutch people to go to New Netherlands?
A colonist is a person who lives in a colony.
What is a colonist?
A colony is a settlement ruled by another country.
What is a colony?
A governor is a person who runs a colony or state.
What is a governor?
The North West passage which was a waterway through or around North America.
What was Henry Hudson hired by the Dutch East India Company to find?
Fort Orange
What was the important trading post in New Netherland along the Hudson River that is known as Albany today?
It would give the English greater control of the east coast of North America.
What was the main reason the English wanted to take over New Netherland?
New Netherland
What was the name of colony that was set up by the Dutch West India Company?
Northwest Passage
What water route was the explorers searching for that went from Asia though North America?
New York
When the colony of New Netherland was taken over by the English what did they rename it?
A patroon was a landowner in New Netherland who had to bring 50 settlers to the colony to help settle his land.
Who is a patroon?
Peter Minuit was the first governor of New Amsterdam. He put the colony of New Amsterdam in a state of chaos because the Dutch were taking up too much of the land from the Native Americans.
Who was Peter Minuit?
It did not change much. The Dutch did not have to give up their jobs, land or language.
Did life change much for the Dutch after the English took over?
New Amsterdam became New York when the English took over the colony and the Duke of York renamed it New York.
How did New Amsterdam change its name to New York?
The English king, Charles II, believed that New Netherland belong to England. Based upon this, he gave the land to his brother, James, Duke of York. James sent ships to New Amsterdam and demanded that the Dutch surrender.
How did New Netherland become part of England?
New Amsterdam
After Peter Minuit bought Manhattan from the Lenni Lenape for $24, what was the colony called?
The Dutch West India Company was a company set up by the Dutch to form a colony in North America to set up trade with Native Americas
.What was the Dutch West India Company?