HIST 2111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Olive Oil, Blue Law, Savannah Indians
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New york: old netherlanders at new netherlands. Major colonial power (mainly in the east indies: henry hudson"s voyage, new netherlands. New netherlands: founded in the hudson river area (1623-1624) Established by dutch west india company for quick-profit fur trade. Company wouldn"t pay much attention to the colony. Purchased by company for pennies per (22,000) acre: new amsterdam harbor, 1639. Company town run in interests of the stockholders. No interests in religious toleration, free speech, or democracy. Religious dissenters against dutch reformed church (including quakers) were persecuted protests by colonists: new amsterdam, 1660. Local assembly with limited power to make laws established after repeated. Characteristics of new amsterdam: would settle 50 people on them) Aristocratic: patroonships (feudal estates granted to promoters who. Cosmopolitan: diverse population with many different languages: new netherlands and new sweden (1638, swedes in new netherlands. Mid-1600s --> sweden in golden age settled small, under-funded colony (called. 1655: dutch under director-general peter stuyvesant attack new sweden.
