New Amsterdam Incorporated: 2 February 1653

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Dutch traders founded and ran New Amsterdam from 1624 to 1664 (when the British took over and renamed it New York). The city was formally incorporated as New Amsterdam on 2 February 1653. 

While official Dutch and Netherlands involvement in North America was limited in time--it had a huge impact on American culture. The business of New Amsterdam was always business. The South went more the landed gentry way.  New England flirted with socialism and theocracy. A lot of the culture of economic and individual freedom, limited government involvement, and Protestant work ethic came from those early Dutch colonists. 

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