basic history
painting - The Fall of New Amsterdam by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris.
Peter Stuyvesant (left center) stand on shore with residents of Amsterdam who plead with him not to fire on the English warships. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amsterdam |
The Lenape were the first native people of New York who fished, hunted and farmed. Although Europeans have explored the place at the beginning of the 16th Century, no one settled there until the Dutch in 1624. New York City was named by the British in 1664 when they took over from the Dutch. In 1673, the city was renamed to New Orange when the Dutch briefly occupied it. Gradually more people started to live there and government bought more land from the native by trading tools, farming equipment etc. By 1760, New York City's population excelled and it became the largest city in the American colonies and the Western hemisphere fifty years later.
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18th century
This city was anti-British during the 1760s and 1770s. Although this, British found this city strategically important and tried to seize it as soon as the revolutionary war began. Finally the British claimed this city in 1776 and it served as a British military base until 1783. After that New York City served as the capital of the United States from 1785 to 1790.
19th century
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By 1810 New York City became one of the nation's most important ports for transporting goods in and out of the country. During the 1840s and 1850s, an increasing number of immigrants from Europe settled in ethnic groups, started businesses and changed the city.
picture: European Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island 1891
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In 1895, residents of Queens,, the Bronx, Staten Island and Brooklyn voted to join mAnhattan to form the five-borough city we all know as New York City today.
picture: European Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island 1891
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In 1895, residents of Queens,, the Bronx, Staten Island and Brooklyn voted to join mAnhattan to form the five-borough city we all know as New York City today.
20th Century
picture: New York City early 20th Century
http://pagesfromthepast.com/new-york-city-history-1/ |
This century was challenging for this city as the construction of interstate highways after World War II caused people to leave the city which further led to economic challenges. Although this occurred, immigrants from Asia, Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America traveled to the United States creating new communities.
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21st century
One of the most deadliest terrorist attacks in history occurred on the morning of September 11th, 2001. A group of terrorists crashed two jets into the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Numerous other buildings at the World trade Center in lower Manhattan were destroyed along with nearly 3000 people killed, including the 19 terrorists. This was most lives lost in the US due to a terrorist attack.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/events/the_september_11th_terrorist_attacks
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/events/the_september_11th_terrorist_attacks
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http://www.news.com.au/world/chilling-september-11-note-reaches-family-years-after-9-11-terror-attacks/story-fndir2ev-1226471638472
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All information above from:
http://www.history.com/topics/new-york-city
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amsterdam
http://www.history.com/topics/new-york-city
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amsterdam