Which English colony started out as a Dutch colony?

Chapter 3 Study GuideQuestionAnswerWhich colony began as a Dutch settlement?New YorkWhat is another name for the border established between Maryland and Pennsylvania in the 1760s?Mason-Dixon LineEngland's first permanent settlement in North America was called ________.Jamestown17 more rows read more

The Dutch West Indian Company built a fort in 1616 on the Essequibo River. The Dutch traded with the Indian peoples and, as in Suriname, established sugar plantations worked by African slaves. While the coast remained under Dutch control, the English established plantations west of the Suriname River. read more

Method of attracting settlers to Virginia; after 1618, it gave fifty acres of land to anyone who paid for their own passage or for that of any other settlers who might be sent or brought to the colony. read more

There was only one Dutch colony on the American mainland, which was New Netherland. The English seized it in 1664 during the Second Anglo-Dutch War, The treaty of Breda ending the war ratified permanent English possession. read more