New York State is the 11th oldest state in the USA after being incorporated into the Union in 1798 from its old title of the Crown Colony of New York. Since that period, New York has only ever grown in importance and stature not only in the USA but also across the world. Thanks to...
New Amsterdam, and by the middle of that century shipyards were scattered along the New England coast at Newburyport, Salem, New Bedford, Newport, Providence, New London, and New Haven. Yards at Albany and Poughkeepsie in New York built ships for the trade of that colony with England and ...
The American Colonization Society (ACS) and Liberia: Unforeseen Legacies of U.S. Intervention The American Colonization Society (ACS) was founded in 1816 with the primary intention of repatriating free African Americans and emancipated slaves to a colony in West Africa. The society believed in the...
Slavery was introduced into the colony of New Jersey in the 17th century, shortly after the Dutch first settled in the colony. The colonial system of slavery was a labor system known as chattel slavery, in which the slave was the personal property of his or her owner for life. Men and w...
Albany, city, capital (1797) of the state of New York, U.S., and seat (1683) of Albany county. It lies along the Hudson River, 143 miles (230 km) north of New York City. The heart of a metropolitan area that includes Troy and Schenectady, it is a port ci
As a British colony, New Jersey was subject to English Common Law, and its women, especially married women, were subject to the property rights and civil rights of women in England. When a woman married, her legal status became that of feme covert, meaning that the wife was covered by th...
The Dutch first settled along the Hudson River in 1624; two years later they established the colony of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. In 1664, the English took control of the area and renamed it New York. One of the original 13 colonies, New York played a crucial political and ...
The Motivation for Founding the New Jersey Colony In 1664, James, the Duke of York, received control of New Netherland. He sent a small English force to blockade the harbor atNew Amsterdam. Peter Stuyvesant surrendered to the English without a fight. King Charles II had granted the lands bet...
The great assemblage, however, was at the governor's house, whither repaired all the burghers of New Amsterdam with their wives and daughters, pranked out in their best attire. On this occasion the good Peter was devoutly observant of the piousDutch rite of kissing the women-kind for a hap...
The Lost Colony of Roanoke 10 Women Scientists Who Should Be Famous (or More Famous) Russian Revolution Timeline infootball Also known as: association football, soccer Written by Richard C. Giulianotti Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Aberdeen. Author ofFootball: A Sociology of the Game...