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Two weeks later, Stuyvesant officially capitulated by signing Articles of Surrender and in June 1665, the town was reincorporated under English law and renamed "New York" after the Duke, and Fort Orange was renamed "Albany," ending the 50-year history of the Dutch colony. The Stamp Act and other British measures fomented dissent, particularly among Sons of Liberty who maintained a long-running skirmish with locally stationed British troops over Liberty Poles from 1766 to 1776.
In the context of the Glorious Revolution in England, Jacob Leisler led Leisler's Rebellion and effectively controlled the city and surrounding areas from 1689–1691, before being arrested and executed. The area that eventually encompassed modern day New York City was inhabited by the Lenape people. A series of fires break out.
After a short war boom, The Bronx declined from 1950 to 1985, going from predominantly moderate-income to mostly lower-income, with high rates of violent crime and poverty. On June 15, 1904, over 1,000 people, mostly German immigrant women and children, were killed when the excursion steamship General Slocum caught fire and sank. Jul 26, 1788, New York Became the 11th State May 17, 1792, The New York Stock Exchange Began Oct 24, 1929, The Great Depression Began Sep 11, 2001, The World Trade Center was attacked Phelps Stokes; The Iconography of Manhattan Island Vol 6.
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Federal Hall is built. [18] This English conquest cannot be defended as being based on any principles of right.
Finally a Bar Association emerged in 1869 that proved successful and continues to operate. 1797 - January - Albany became the capital of the State, 1789 - April 30 - New York City became the first capital of the new nation, where President George Washington was inaugurated. European settlement began with the Dutch in 1608. During the 19th century, the city was transformed by immigration, a visionary development proposal called the Commissioners' Plan of 1811 which expanded the city street grid to encompass all of Manhattan, and the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, which connected the Atlantic port to the vast agricultural markets of the Midwestern United States and Canada. The "Sons of Liberty" destroyed British authority in New York City, and the Stamp Act Congress of representatives from throughout the Thirteen Colonies met in the city in 1765 to organize resistance to British policies. The Constitution also created the current Congress of the United States, and its first sitting was at Federal Hall on Wall Street. Modern New York City traces its development to the consolidation of the five boroughs in 1898 and an economic and building boom following the Great Depression and World War II. By the time of the arrival of Europeans, they were cultivating fields of vegetation through the slash and burn technique, which extended the productive life of planted fields. Many paths created by the indigenous peoples are now main thoroughfares, such as Broadway in Manhattan, the Bronx, and Westchester.
The combination ended the rule of the Gilded Age barons. New York City in the 18th Century.
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The construction of the Rockefeller Center occurred in the 1930s and was the largest-ever private development project at the time.
But as their status, wealth and power rose, animosity grew even faster.
Pipes snaked between grim water towers.
The oldest recorded house still in existence in New York City, the Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House in Brooklyn, dates from 1652.
New York City was greatly damaged twice by fires of suspicious origin during British military rule. After the British took over the colony and city in 1664, they continued to import slaves from Africa and the Caribbean. Like many major U.S. cities, New York suffered race riots, gang wars and some population decline in the late 1960s. More than a fourth of the 300 largest corporations in 1920 were headquartered in New York City.[39].
The street next to it is called Wall Street. [31] New York City remained the capital of the U.S. until 1790, when the role was transferred to Philadelphia. It flooded low-lying areas of Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. Willem Kieft became director in 1638 but five years later was embroiled in Kieft's War against the Native Americans. He named the area New Angoulême (French: Nouvelle-Angoulême)[9] in honor of Francis I, King of France of the royal house of Valois-Angoulême and who had been Count of Angoulême from 1496 until his coronation in 1515.
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Phelps Stokes; The Iconography of Manhattan Island Vol 1. Charles E. Hughes, Alfred E. Smith and Thomas E. Dewey all were candidates for the presidency. 1792 - The New York Stock Exchange, founded, and has become the center of world finance.