History of the United States I / Unit 3 USH1 0309 short lesson, about 20 seconds
New Netherland
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The idea
Peter Stuyvesant, director-general from sixteen forty-seven, expanded the colony to Long Island and up the Hudson, and conquered New Sweden in sixteen fifty-five.
In practice
The Dutch West India Company controlling all commerce, the colony working primarily as a fur-trading post.
Where people slip
By sixteen sixty-four only nine thousand people lived there, not enough to meet labour demand.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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