<h2>Kieft ordered an attack on the Indians at Pavonia, but he told his soldiers to spare the women and children. Eighty Dutch soldiers reached Pavonia on the night of February 25, 1643. The soldiers failed to heed the exemption and killed eighty men, women and children in a rampage. ... Pavonia was desolate" (10).</h2>
The economic differences between the North and South contributed to the rise of regional populations with contrasting values and visions for the future.
