Which of the following had a significant long-term effect on the social and economic evolution of the colony of New York?
A) the efforts of Dutch colonial governor Peter Stuyvesant to enforce religious uniformity and ban Jews from the colony
B) the Dutch recapturing the colony from the British in 1763
C) the great New York harbor and access to the interior of New York via the Hudson River
D) the absence of any significant involvement in the slave trade since the Dutch controlled the colony (New Amsterdam) from 1626-1664
Answer: C
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