721+New+Amsterdam+aka+New+York+Colony,+Mid-Atlantic


 * New Amsterdam of the Mid-Atlantic: Dea Turashvili, Sadie Read, Johnny Lu, Brandon Green **

 **Question 1**

New Amsterdam, present day New York, had a great influence on people from the European nation coming to the thirteen colonies. In most cases, people who yearned for religious freedom, receives it when they travel to New Amsterdam. Thus, this colony is widely diverse and not dominated by a specific religion. New Amsterdam was a 17th-century Dutch settlement established at the southern tip of Manhattan Island and served as seat of the colonial government in New Netherland. The colony of New Netherland was established by the Dutch West India Company in 1624 and grew to encompass all of present-day [|New York City] and parts of Long Island,[|Connecticut], and [|New Jersey]. In 1664, New Amsterdam passed to English control,so then, the English and Dutch settlers lived together peacefully.
 * New York Colony Fact File ||
 * Facts || Subject || Facts about the New York Colony ||
 * Fact 1 || History || Year Founded: 1626 by [|Peter Minuit] and others, on Manhattan Island ||
 * Fact 2 || Cities || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Major Towns / Cities: New York City, Albany ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Fact 3 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Geography || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Geography: Mountains in the northeast, lowlands from Lake Ontario along the Canadian border. Atlantic coastal plain. The general geography of the Middle Colonies had a mix of the New England and Southern features but had fertile soil and land that was suited to farming ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Fact 4 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Climate || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Climate: The Middle Colonies had a mild climate with warm summers and mild winters that were suited to farming and agriculture ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Fact 5 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Religion || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Religion: Not dominated by a specific religion which gave way to religious freedom for Quakers, Catholics, Lutherans, Jews and others. Refer to [|Religion in the Colonies] ||

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">This is a document of the Flushing Remonstrance which depicts how the Dutch who lived in New Amsterdam wanted to accept the Quakers and allow them to practice their religion in New Amsterdam.This shows that the Dutch respected everyone's religion no matter how much they believed in it. The Dutch gave semi-freedom to everyone who lived on their land by letting them practice their own religion.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">: This is an example of a colonial primer. Children were taught in schools using these. This one was used to teach children children the alphabet, but it refers to the bible a lot while doing so.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22px;"> Question 2 **


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 22px;"> Question 3 **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; line-height: 1.5;">Slavery was important to the Dutch in New Amsterdam because they needed people to be working the fields that brought the fur for that fur trade. The Dutch at first tried to bring in agriculture laborers to the fur fields, but this got them nowhere because the workers just wanted to earn money and then go back home so this turned New Amsterdam to slaves. They needed the slaves to work the fields and produce enough fur to fulfill the European's needs. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Slavery was benefiting the Dutch because people who were working the fields before are now free to expand onto New Amsterdam's knowledge by discovering new ways to build houses or medical procedures. More fur to trade as well as new discoveries were all due to slavery making it a profitable to New Amsterdam.