slaveryNot all people came to you New York on the will free world a group of powerful Dutch merchants from the Dutch and Indian company and they brought slaves from Africa to New York by 160 hundreds. By the end of the 18th-century there were no more more than 20,000 slaves in New York. The slaves Cleared forests us and built roads built buildings and worked on farms. Though the slave trade was banned in 1788 the laws still allowed certain forms of slavery to continue. Slivery was officially abolished in this date in the 1827 former slaves were given to the right to vote in 1870 then admitted to the consolidation .
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Giovanni da Verrazano o, an Italian-born navigator sailing for France, discovered New York Bay in 1524. Henry Hudson, an Englishman employed by the Dutch, reached the bay and sailed up the river now bearing his name in 1609, the same year that northern New York was explored and claimed for France by Samuel de Champlain.
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indesterysAfter the war some people moved away up into the wilderness western New York City .There they laid out railroads and built steamships. Also they had constructed the Erie Canal.New York City can be in one of the busiest ports in the world delivering all kinds of goods. Tall buildings shot up in the city. New industries develop such as newspapers banking shipbuilding and others. That were making products and creating new jobs. By the mid-80s New York's population has 12 to 3,000,000 people. Immigrants arrived constantly from Ireland and Germany.
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french settlersIn 1603 a man named Samuel de Champlain traveled from France to Canada to trade fur with native people. In 1609 he claimed New York has a French territory including the lake that was named after him . Also that year an English explorer named Henry Hudson helped the Dutch set up trading post along the river that bears his name. First things traded were guns blankets another goods. The success of these trades enabled the Dutch to set up two colonies Fort Orange and Fort
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first people in New York.The first settlers of New York were Paleo-Indians.
Europeans explores began arriving in North American in the 1500's. The first person to see New York was Giovanni da Verrazano. This man was looking for a direct route to Asia as a way to increase trade for spices andThe other things . |
warsWhen in the French and Indian war gave out the British had control over New York but the British government needed more money to pay for the war. They decided to tax goods that were bought by the colonies the colonies however disagreed and begin to revolt against tax . There protests lead to the revolutionary war . General George Washington led his army through New York city to upstate New York fighting battles along the way New York City was under British rule until the war ended in 1783. On July 8 1788 New York was declared a state 11th state. George Washington was warning in as first president of the United States is inaugral ceremony that took place in New York City. New York city was the nations capital from 1785 to 1790.
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