New York City Urbanization

The New England Colonies were made up of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. The Middle Colonies consisted of Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. Both regions have a rich history, often overlapping, yet diverging at many points in history before uniting in the American Revolutionary War. Both the New England and Middle Colony regions have a strong European history, complete with conflict known to their originating countries.

New York City’s old slum neighbourhood, the Five Points, was notoriously known for its vice and crimes. The first organized crime group in New York City was the Forty Thieves which was led by Edward Coleman, started in 1825, in the back of a grocery store. The Dead Rabbits were an Irish gang in the Five Points area, and are most known for the riot they caused in 1857. The Eastman Gang were a Jewish group in the Five Points area, which began in the late nineteenth century, and were the rival of the Five Points Gang. The Five Points Gang was another group, started by Paul Kelly and included future famous mobsters. In Five Points, where most of New York City’s crime started, it also started some of history’s most notorious gangs, and mobsters.

The first colony in the region where New Amsterdam would be built was at first just a Dutch trading post and fort. In 1624 Dutch traders under the Dutch West India Company established the colony of New Amsterdam for their fur trading and other goods.The Dutch traders came to this region from the Netherlands to skin fur of exotic beast. Others later came to the settlement to protect the fort and to farm for the soldiers. Most of New Amsterdam population were mainly traders, soldiers, and some farmers. The New Amsterdam Colony lasted for 40 years before it was taken by British and renamed New York.

“The new world had an extraordinary richness of languages”(Native peoples prior to European arrival).In the fifteenth century, people in Europe began to explore west to seek new lands and resources because of economic problems.The Europeans came to America to look for gold and silver, but the trip would be difficult and dangerous because there were no maps and not much knowledge on how to get there.Prince Henrey took the challenge to make it possible for others to sail to the Americas without any knowledge on how to get there.He created a place where people who were interested could share their knowledge about geography.People learned about maps and navigation.Then, Henrys sailors finally decided to lead others to go west where eventually Jamestown would be created.In 1606, King James told the three royal charters to create a comfortable colony on the east coast.The English worried about being attacked from the Spanish so they chose almost an island where they parked their ships by tying them to the trees available.To honor the king, they named the place Jamestown(Culters at Jamestown).

Although, Hudson’s whereabouts before 1607 are unknown, historians can still analysis the life events during the known time of Hudson existence. Between 1607 and the year Hudson died, 1611, Bumsted identifies three major event. The first of these events occurred in 1608 when Quebec gained the resident buildings by Samuel de Champlin. Champlin established a new trading post on the St. Lawrence and during the first year of building the new habitations, it went under attack. Fortunately, the post lasted and in the progress, Champlin associated with the First Nations; however, this led the French into violence against the Iroquois. During the same year, the outline of the arrangement to colonize New France started. Second, in Newfoundland, the first English incomers settled in Newfoundland in 1610. The arrival of the Europeans impacted the First Nations people greatly. The impact that the diseases, such as measles, smallpox, typus, and typiod, altered the lives of the First Nations people; Before the Europeans brought these disease to the continent of what is now Canada, the First Nations people were not immune to them and it caused tremendous damage to their communities. And finally, Frobisher’s voyage to the Northwest Passage inspired the great explorer, Henry Hudson. Within Bumsted, it mentions that Hudson was hired to explore the passage to Asia and in the progress he ended entering the Hudson Bay. Bumsted also mentions that the exploration that Hudson sailed was exceptional and it his search was a best known voyage In comparison to Bumsted, Henry Hudson’s biography references that he missed no prospect of landmarks on Quebec and the Diggs Island into the Hudson Bay itself. The biography mentions that Hudson succeeded in setting the further north record on his voyage, but the search for the Northeast Passage was not successful. Furthermore, when studying the biography of Henry

Midyear Essay Rewrite The expansion of trade led to the urbanization of Europe in the late Middle Ages through the development of towns, guilds, and the rise of education. Urbanization is the process by which cities form and expand. As trade expanded, a city's popularity could grow and more merchants would want to travel there to receive more business and customers.

On October 12, 1492 Christopher Columbus reached land in the New World. He believed he reached India but others later discovered he had really reached what would become America. Many would come after Columbus to the land already lived on by Native Americans; some would claim different parts to gain profit and use the Native Americans as slaves to work the land, while others would come to the New World for a more permanent cause. During Europe’s time of religious unrest, two major groups traveled to the New World in hopes of starting a colony to get away from religious turmoil and to make a profit. Those who founded Jamestown (Chesapeake region) in 1607 were motivated by financial success while those who founded the Massachusetts Bay (New England)

Cities throughout the north and Midwest, riddled with factories, warehouse’s and work areas needed people to fill jobs left by people who were drafted or enlisted into military ranks for World War I. New York had many jobs and opportunities in places such as the pier’s and docks. Detroit had automobile factories with tons of open job opportunities. African American’s flocked to these large urban areas. Also, with the onset of World War I, the creation of

In 1609, Henry Hudson accidentally discovered a river (known today as the Hudson River). And in 1624, the Dutch settled by the Hudson River. Peter Minuit founded New Amsterdam, in 1626. Finally in 1664, the colony surrendered to the English and was renamed to New York. New York was named after the king's brother, the Duke of York

The introduction of the Dutch to North America happened by chance, as they were attempting to locate a passage to Asia. Henry Hudson, an English sea captain working for the Dutch came across the island of Manhattan in 1609 and sailed north on a river for 150 miles, later the Dutch established a trading post along this river called Fort Nassau, later Fort Orange, North America, the inclusion of New Amsterdam into the Dutch trading empire, as its capital allowed them to solidify their standing as a trading entity. This allowed the Native

In 1625, Peter Minuit founded New Amsterdam near the Hudson River. According to the legend, Peter Minuit paid local Indians about $24 worth of trinkets for the land.

Starting sometime in the beginning of the sixteenth century, a large land mass located along the Atlantic coast of North America attracted foreigners to its shores. One of the first of these foreigners, Italian navigator, Giovanni da Verrazano arrived in 1524, exploring the coastline for France. Eighty-five years later, in 1609 a Dutchman, Henry Hudson, explored the coastline for England. Fifteen years later, some of the first settlers arrived in North America. Dutch explorer, Cornelis Jacobsen May along with thirty Dutch families settled along the Delaware on Burlington Island. Other Dutch settlements would soon follow (Lurie). Eventually this lead to the Dutch establishing the township of Newark.

Every time I hear this song it makes me long to leave all of my responsibilities and head off to the city of dreams. A trip to New York has been a dream of mine since I was a little girl. I have always wanted to visit the place of tall buildings, history, and where culture is intertwined with its people. I have wanted to live the fast pace life of a New Yorker, where I could stand outside and see, smell, and taste all of the experiences that this city has to offer. I have been building and building this ideal image in my mind for so long. If I ever get to New York, will I be disappointed by the city that never sleeps? The city that is a part of almost every movie I watch. Can New York live up to the expectations I have

The Portuguese settled in eastern Brazil, the French along the St. Lawrence River in present-day Canada, first explored by Jacques Cartier and then settled sixty years later by Samuel de Champlain. The English came to the New World late, after several failed expeditions by Walter Raleigh, Humphrey Gilbert, and Martin Frobisher. Once the Jamestown colony survived its first trials of starvation, disease, riots, and violence with the Powhatan tribe, the English expanded from this base up and down the eastern coast of North America.

The process of people moving into cities, which is called urbanisation, was happening around the world in past decades. It causes cities to have more labourers and resources than before. This makes a big contribution to the social development of cities. Thanks to these social developments, public services are becoming better in these areas. Citizens can enjoy a better life by access these public services such as better medical care, more education resources and well-built transport. It means an equitable society can be created. An equitable society means citizens can have more opportunities to access social resources and to live a better life. This essay will argue that