The Significance of Spanish, French, and Dutch colonization within the present boundaries of the United States

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…trading posts, and agricultural settlements were founded. The Dutch found their way to America through a hired Englishman named Henry Hudson. He was employed to explore the East Coast from Virginia to New Foundland. Consequently, fur trading began with Native Americans and the Dutch West Indian Company founded New Amsterdam on the Hudson River. The Dutch expanded as Far East as the Connecticut River and they captured settlements founded by the Swedish in the South.