1. Settlement of New Amsterdam

2. First Peoples Native Americans lived on Manhattan Island Way of Life – Trading, Hunting and Fishing (economics)

3. “The Purchase” - Manhattan “Bought” by the Dutch from the natives for a converted $24 Was it really bought?

4. Dutch Leader Willem Kieft became Director General in 1638 – Relieved after a massacre of the Natives (In present day Jersey City) – Dutch nearly lose colony

5. New Leader Dutch Colony failing – Netherlands send a new leader – Peter Stuyvesant – Cleans up and improves the colony

6. Takeover The British took the colony from the Dutch settlers without even firing a shot. Duke of York (James II) shows up in harbor with British Fleet Settlers give up colony without a fight

7. New Amsterdam

9. Why Own Manhattan?