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By Victoria |
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New York has an interesting
history. You will learn more about the colony of New York in this report.
You will learn about its early history.
The people who were living in that area, the area that would become
New York later, were the Algonquian Indians and the Iroquois Indians.
People from Europe came to live in the colonies after Columbus told the
Europeans about the colonies.
There was someone named Henry Hudson who was working for the
Dutch
trading company. He helped
settle the area. In 1624, the
Dutch West Indian Company sent 18 families to New Netherland. More people
came and built a town on Manhattan Island, and they called it New
Amsterdam. They named it after a city in New Netherlands.
In 1626, Peter Minuit
bought Manhattan from the Indians for knives, beads and cloth… all that
together was $24.
There was a war between the people that live in New Netherlands and
the Algonquians. Many homes, farms and fields where destroyed. The Indians
lost and had to give up the land they lived on for hundreds of years.
In 1664, King Charles the Second sent his brother James, the Duke
of York, to take New Netherland from Stuyvesant.
After that New Netherland was renamed
New York after James. At
first James let the colonists choose their laws and leaders.
In 1686, those rights were taken away. “New York is no longer its
own colony,” said James.
In 1691, New York was becoming a royal colony ruled by the King of
England. New York didn’t
grow as fast as the other colonies. Some
colonists didn’t want to live in New York anymore.
Before they put stamps on the paper to show they paid their taxes.
The colonists were mad about all the money they had to pay the taxes.
In April 1775 , the British soldiers, the American Militia, went to
war. It was the Revolutionary War that
had begun. It took
eight years of fighting to make the Untied States of America. So, you know we won because we now live in the United States of America….not England! To Mrs.
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