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Dutch trading posts and plantations in the Americans precede the much wider known colonization activities of the dutch in Asia.
An initially small slide in stock prices led to the stock market crash because it was a "domino affect" in terms of people becoming more and more fearful about losing money the more the market slumped.
I believe they became more powerful !!!
False it was not apart of the United States