The first native New Yorkers were the Lenape, an Algonquin people who hunted, fished and farmed in the area between the Delaware and Hudson rivers. Europeans began to explore the region at the beginning of the 16th century—among the first was Giovanni da Verrazzano, an Italian who sailed up and down the Atlantic coast in search of a route to Asia—but none settled there until Fewer than people lived in New Amsterdam when the settlement moved to Manhattan.
But it grew quickly, and in the city now called New York City; population 18, surpassed Boston to become the second-largest city in the American colonies. Fifty years later, with a population ,, it became the largest city in the Western hemisphere.
For the next century, the population of New York City grew larger and more diverse: It included immigrants from the Netherlands, England, France and Germany; indentured servants; and African slaves. During the s and s, the city was a center of anti-British activity—for instance, after the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act in , New Yorkers closed their businesses in protest and burned the royal governor in effigy.
However, the city was also strategically important, and the British tried to seize it almost as soon as the Revolutionary War began. It served as a British military base until It played a particularly significant role in the cotton economy: Southern planters sent their crop to the East River docks, where it was shipped to the mills of Manchester and other English industrial cities.
Then, textile manufacturers shipped their finished goods back to New York. But there was no easy way to carry goods back and forth from the growing agricultural hinterlands to the north and west until , when work began on a mile canal from the Hudson River to Lake Erie. The Erie Canal was completed in At last, New York City was the trading capital of the nation. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads. Create a personalised ads profile.
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Roosevelt achieved the presidency; and Nelson Rockefeller served as vice president. Governors Charles E. Hughes, Alfred E. Smith and Thomas E.
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