After Peter Minuit negotiated the lease of the island of Manhattan in 1626
a. English settlers quickly began to challenge the Dutch claim on the island.
b. Dutch settlers began to arrive in droves.
c. colonists quickly began to lose sight of the beaver trade upstream
d. only the comprehensive business plan of the Dutch West India Company began to bring about agricultural development on the island and upstream.
ANSWER: d
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