Dutch Colony of New Netherlands

The people who owned these big pieces of land were called patroons. What responsibilities did they have?

Provide land, tools, seed, livestock of what they produced.

Henry Hudson was hired by the Dutch East India Company to find

The North West passage, A waterway through or around North America.

Hudson and his crew traded with the natives What did the natives give Hudson?

furs

When Henry Hudson sailed up the river that now bears his name, he thought he found it but North of what is now the city of Albany, he realized that

it was just a river

The tenants(settlers) were often treated like

serfs (An agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system to work on his lord's estate.)

What did the natives receive from Hudson?

technology

Besides the Dutch what groups of people went to New Netherlands?

French protestants, Germans, English, Spanish Jews, Irish, African(forced),Scandinavians ( Sweden, Norway, Finland)

What did the tenants (settlers) have to do?

Give the patroon a large %.

Because of Hudson's voyage, the Dutch set up colonies along his river. List three settlements

Long Island, Manhattan Islands, Albany

The Colony of New Netherlands was taken over by the English and was renamed

New York

To encourage Dutch people to go to New Netherlands, the Dutch West India Company granted huge sections of land to anyone who promised to bring

50 families to the land along the Hudson River.