Answer: yeah why wouldn't we
Explanation:
After some early trading expeditions the first Dutch settlement was founded in 1615 fort Nassau on castle island along the hudson near present day Albany. The settlement served mostly as an outpost for trading in fur with the native lenape tribespeople but was later REPLACED BY FORT ORANGE.
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It impacted today's society because it gave us freedom, it made us a country, it made us able to have our own laws and freedom's
