New Netherland was a 17th-century colonial province of the Dutch Republic that was located on the east coast of what is the United States.
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20 Facts About New Netherland
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Inhabitants of New Netherland were European colonists, Native Americans, and Africans imported as slave laborers.
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New Netherland was turned back by the ice of the Arctic in his second attempt, so he sailed west to seek a Northwest Passage rather than return home.
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New Netherland ended up exploring the waters off the east coast of America aboard the Flyboat Halve Maen.
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New Netherland discovered Delaware Bay and began to sail upriver looking for the passage.
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New Netherland found the water too shallow to proceed several days later at the site of Troy, New York.
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New Netherland's report was first published in 1611 by Emanuel Van Meteren, the Dutch Consul at London.
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New Netherland was the first recorded non-native inhabitant of New York City.
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New Netherland Company ordered a survey of the Delaware Valley, and Cornelis Hendricksz of Monnickendam explored the Zuyd Rivier in 1616 from its bay to its northernmost navigable reaches.
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New Netherland's observations were preserved in a map drawn in 1616.
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New Netherland did not focus on colonization in America until 1654, when it was forced to surrender Dutch Brazil and forfeit the richest sugar-producing area in the world.
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In 1624, New Netherland became a province of the Dutch Republic, which had lowered the northern border of its North American dominion to 42 degrees latitude in acknowledgment of the claim by the English north of Cape Cod.
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New Netherland was replaced the following year by Willem Verhulst.
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New Netherland chose instead the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the river explored by Hudson, at that time called the North River.
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New Netherland ordered the construction of Fort Amsterdam at its southern tip, around which grew the heart of the province called The Manhattoes in the vernacular of the day, rather than New Netherland.
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Discontent in New Netherland Amsterdam led locals to dispatch Adriaen van der Donck back to the United Provinces to seek redress.
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Connecticut and New Netherland Haven were actually on land claimed by the United Provinces, but the Dutch were unable to populate or militarily defend their territorial claim and therefore could do nothing but protest the growing flood of English settlers.
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The directors of the Dutch West India Company concluded that the religious freedom that they offered in New Netherland would dissuade English colonists from working toward their removal.
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New Netherland grew into the largest metropolis in the United States, and it left an enduring legacy on American cultural and political life, "a secular broadmindedness and mercantile pragmatism" greatly influenced by the social and political climate in the Dutch Republic at the time, as well as by the character of those who immigrated to it.
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President Martin Van Buren grew up in Kinderhook, New Netherland York speaking only Dutch, becoming the only president not to have spoken English as a first language.
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