Chronicles the early history of New York, covering its Native American peoples and explorers, life in the first settlements, conflicts between colonists and Native Americans, the building tensions between the colonies and England, the Revolutionary War, and the creation and ratification of the federal constitution.
Content Note
Introduction -- Map: The Thirteen Colonies, 1790 -- First contacts -- Early explorers -- Champlain and the Iroquois -- Early exploration of New York -- Map: Early exploration of New York, 1609--1613 -- Dutch West India Company -- Hudson's Fourth voyage -- Block and the Restless -- Map: Original boundaries of New Netherland, 1614 -- Native Americans of New York -- Map: Native Americans of New York, early 17th Century -- League of the Iroquois -- Dating the start of the league of the Iroquois -- Constructing a longhouse -- Iroquois Footwear -- Algonquian-speaking Tribes of New York-- Wampum -- Native Americans and European diseases -- Dutch Settle New Netherland -- Walloons -- New Amsterdam -- Purchase of Manhattan -- Rensselaerswyck -- Graph: Population of New Netherland and New York, 1630--1790 -- Life in New Netherland -- Fur Trade -- Governor Kieft and the Native American Threat to New Netherland -- Peter Stuyvesant runs New Netherland -- First Jews in New Amsterdam -- Flushing Remonstrance -- Nine pins -- Map: New Amsterdam, 1660 -- New Netherland becomes New York -- Conquest of New Netherland -- James, Duke of York and Albany, later King James II (1633--1701) -- Division of the Duke's Grant -- Return of the Dutch -- Governor Edmund Andros -- Preamble to the Charter of Liberties and Privileges, 1683 -- James II and the Dominion of New England -- Map: Dominion of New England, 1686--1689 -- Life in Colonial New York -- Jacob Leisler (1640--1691) -- Becoming English -- Graph: Population of the Thirteen Colonies, 1700 -- William Kidd (CA. 1645--1701) -- William Bradford (1663--1752) -- Freedom of the press -- Albany Congress -- Albany plan -- French and Indian Wars -- King William's War, 1689--1697 -- Map: Frontier during King William's war, 1689--1697 -- Queen Anne's war, 1702--1713 -- King George's War, 1744--1748 -- Sir Peter Warren (1703--1752) -- French and Indian War (Seven Years' War), 1755--1762 -- Map: French Territory in North America, 1755 -- Sir William Johnson (1715--1774) -- Road to revolution -- Sugar Act, April 5, 1764 -- Stamp Act, March 22, 1765 -- Sons of Liberty -- Townshend Duties, June 29, 1767 -- Battle of Golden Hill (January 18, 1770) -- Tea Act, May 10, 1773 -- New York Tea Party -- Intolerable Acts, 1774 -- Committees of Correspondence -- First Continental Congress -- John Jay (1745--1829) -- War for Independence -- Fort Ticonderoga -- Vermont and the Green Mountain Boys -- Battle for New York -- Hessians -- New York and the Declaration of Independence -- First Paragraph of the Declaration of Independence -- Map: Battle of Long Island, August 27--29, 1776 -- Nathan Hale (1755--1776) -- Margaret Corbin (1751--1800) -- Battle for the Rest of New York -- Iroquois and the Revolution -- First and Second Battles of Saratoga, September 19 and October 7, 1777 -- Map: First Battle of Saratoga (Freeman's Farm), September 19, 1777 -- Map: Second Battle of Saratoga (Bemis Heights), October 7, 1777 -- Rest of the Revolution in New York -- Postwar Struggles and Building a New Nation -- Articles of Confederation -- Alexander Hamilton (1757--1804) -- Life in Postwar New York -- George Clinton (1739--1812) -- Annapolis Convention -- Slavery in New York State -- Constitutional Convention -- Ratifying the Constitution -- New York time line -- New York historical sites -- Further Reading -- Books -- Web sites -- Index.