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What was Peter Stuyvesant like

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Peter Stuyvesant

Born: 1610
Died: Aug. 1673

Significant points:
-Caused considerable unrest by imposing heavy taxes.
-Passed laws that prohibited religious freedom.
-Had a cigarette named after him which was introduced in 1954.
-Was an authoritarian with his subjects, and is often seen as tyrannical, or having unlimited power over the people and often using it unfairly and cruelly.
-He refused to share power with the citizens of the “new colony” of New Amsterdam.
-He had three children and is buried in New York, New York.
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