NEW YORK

PETER MINUIT

• Founder of New York
• He founded it in 1626
• Founded it for religious freedom.

TOWNS AND CITIES

• Albany
• New York City
• Bronx
• Richond
• Kings

REASONING BEHIND LOCATION

• It was a Dutch colony named New Amsterdam and the English wanted to gain control of the valuable port. England sent a fleet to attack the colony but the government surrendered without a fight. King Charles II gave the colony to his brother, the Duke of York, who renamed it to New York.
• It became a middle region colony.

FACTS

• The land is very fertile and ideal for farming.
• It was named after the Duke of York.
• It was originally a Dutch colony.
• The economy prospered because of the good trading setup with the Indians.
• They could choose to worship any religion and not get persecuted.

INTERESTING PEOPLE

• Peter Stuyvesant - Last Dutch governor of colonial New York.
• Jonas Salk - A doctor who invented the first effective vaccine against polio. He later tried to find a cure for cancer.
• Shirley Chrisholm - In 1968 she became the first black woman to be elected in the House of Representatives.

INTERESTING PEOPLE 2

• Robert Fulton - An American inventor who built the first efficient steamboat inaugurating a new era of power driven navigation.
• William Bradford - He published the fist newspaper in New York called, "The New York Gazette."

OVERVIEW

• Population- in 1664, New York was home to 8 thousand people. Now in the year of 2015, it is home to 8 million people.
• New York is now the home of the Empire State Building, time square, and the Statue Of Liberty!
• State animal: beaver
• State bird: eastern bluebird
• Became a state on July 26, 1788

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