CLEP US History I Exam Prep

Answer: C - Henry Hudson sought find a northwest passage to Asia. In the 17th century, the Dutch dominated trade and were interested in the New World in as much as it forwarded this interest. Hudson got as far as the interior of New York, which became a Dutch trading outpost until the British seized it. Because the Dutch fostered religious freedom and were economically stable, there was little incentive for Dutch setters to leave their homeland, limiting Dutch interests in the New Word to trade.