The Influence Of Dutch Migration To America

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The Dutch were one of the earliest Europeans who immigrated to the New World. The first wave of Dutch immigrants did not stay in the new land for long. They came in 1609 and mapped what is now known as the Hudson River. These Dutch explorers were looking for an alternative route to Asia by going through the Hudson River but instead found good farmland and plenty of wildlife. The Dutch founded New Netherlands in 1613 as a trading post for exchanging furs with the Iroquois. The center of the fur trade in New Netherlands was a town called New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. Later on New Netherlands was captured by the English, and New Netherlands became New York and New Amsterdam became New York City.

Seventeenth-Century Migration In the seventeenth century Dutch officials tried to expand the northern colony through a plan that promised "Liberties and Exemptions" to anyone who would ship fifty colonists to America at his own expense. Everyone …show more content…
There was only one group of organised settlers after the British takeover and they were a colony of two hundred Dutchmen and women who founded Germantown in 1683. Most were Quakers who had come over as a response to the appeal of William Penn. During the nineteenth century many Dutch farmers were forced, because of high taxes, to move to America. Most of them settled in the Midwest, especially Michigan, Illinois and Iowa. In the 1840s, Calvinist immigrants wanting more religious freedom immigrated to the Americas. West Michigan in particular had become associated with Dutch American culture, and the highly conservative influence Dutch Reformed Church, centring on the cities of Holland and Grand Rapids. Waves of Catholic Dutch emigrants came from southern Netherlands to form communities in

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