Question

What was Peter Stuyvesant like

Answer 1

Peter Stuyvesant

Born: 1610
Died: Aug. 1673

Significant points:
-Caused considerable unrest by imposing heavy taxes.
-Passed laws that prohibited religious freedom.
-Had a cigarette named after him which was introduced in 1954.
-Was an authoritarian with his subjects, and is often seen as tyrannical, or having unlimited power over the people and often using it unfairly and cruelly.
-He refused to share power with the citizens of the “new colony” of New Amsterdam.
-He had three children and is buried in New York, New York.

Answer 2

Peter Stuyvesant was a Dutch colonial officer who served as the last Dutch director-general of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664, after which it was split into New York and New Jersey with lesser territory becoming parts of other colonies, and later, states.

Peter Stuyvesant was the colorful and controversial director general of the Dutch colony of New Netherland (presentday New York State). During his seventeen years in office, he caused considerable unrest by imposing heavy taxes and passing laws that prohibited religious freedom.

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