The correct answer is C) They bought it from American Indians.
The Dutch acquired New Amsterdam when they bought it from American Indians.
The Dutch, a European power of that time, was able to purchase Manhattan with "a few toys and trinkets"
It was the Dutch West India Company that founded the colony of New Netherlands in the territory that today is Manhattan, in New York. It was Peter Minuit, who buy the island to the Native American Indians that lived there in 1626. The tribe was called the Manhattans. However, things did not well or as the Dutch expected, and in 1641 they waged war against the Manhattans, killing so many Native American Indians.
