Many of these moved farther west but many others stayed. Housing was inadequate. Alongside the fine mansions of the rich, New York had squalid Tenements. Transportation had become chaotic, with the streets choked with wagons and carriages. There were proposals for pedestrian bridges and elevated trains. Just before the outbreak of the Civil War in , the mayor of New York, Fernando Wood , proposed that New York City should break away from New York State and become a "free port," which would have many commercial advantages to its businesses.
He calculated that the revenues of the port would allow New York City citizens to live tax free and enjoy cheap goods. His suggestions were not followed. New Yorkers have always comprised an amalgam of many cultures, and tensions between its various components have manifested themselves at various times through its history.
The most significant example was the draft riots of The draft was unpopular among Democrats in general and Irish immigrants in particular. Rioting broke out in New York after the names of the first conscripts were published, and continued until the Army of the Potomac was deployed to restore order. The Society of St. Tammany was founded in as a benevolent organization, but it quickly assumed a political character and, as Tammany Hall , dominated New York City politics.
The best known politician associated with Tammany Hall was "Boss" Tweed , who was removed from power in with little long-term effect. Corruption continued to characterize city government until , when Fiorello La Guardia was elected on a reform slate. Re-elected in and , La Guardia brought about great improvements in city services. In New York City—where the population doubled every decade from to —buildings that During this era, America became Founded by the French, ruled for 40 years by the Spanish and bought by the United States New immigrants to New York City in the late s faced grim, cramped living conditions in tenement housing that once dominated the Lower East Side.
During the 19th century, immigration steadily increased, causing New York City's population to double every decade The Industrial Revolution, which began roughly in the second half of the s and stretched into the early s, was a period of enormous change in Europe and America.
The invention of new technologies, from mechanized looms for weaving cloth and the steam-powered locomotive to The New York Draft Riots occurred in July , when the anger of working-class New Yorkers over a new federal draft law during the Civil War sparked five days of some of the bloodiest and most destructive rioting in U.
Hundreds of people were killed, many more Boston, the largest city in New England, is located on a hilly peninsula in Massachusetts Bay. The region had been inhabited since at least B. Captain John Smith in explored the One of the original 13 colonies, New Jersey was an important battleground during the American Revolution.
Located in the heart of the bustling Atlantic corridor and nestled between New York and Pennsylvania, New Jersey has the highest population density of any U.
Live TV. This Day In History. History Vault. Recommended for you. To establish the Dutch footprint in the New World, they planted a trading post on the southern tip of the island and called it New Amsterdam , after their capital city in the Netherlands. New Amsterdam was established in The settlement reached from the southern tip of Manhattan to what today is Wall Street , generally believed to take its name from the wooden boundary the Dutch built to keep out Native Americans, from whom they took the land.
The wall also kept out the British, rivals to the Dutch in early commerce and colonization of the United States. In , England sent four warships to New Amsterdam to fight for the land.
The direct general of the Dutch holdings in region, Peter Stuyvesant, surrendered without bloodshed. The Duke of York is a noble title based on York, an important historic city in northern England.
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