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A historical juxtaposition: a replica of Henry Hudson 's 17th-century Halve Maen passes modern-day lower Manhattan where the original ship would have sailed while investigating New York Harbor. The history of New York begins around 10,000 B.C. when the first people arrived. By 1100 A.D. two main cultures had become dominant as the Iroquoian and ...
In New York State, Regents Examinations are statewide standardized examinations in core high school subjects. Students were required to pass these exams to earn a Regents Diploma. To graduate, students are required to have earned appropriate credits in a number of specific subjects by passing year-long or half-year courses, after which they ...
New York, also called New York State, [b] is a state in the Northeastern United States. One of the Mid-Atlantic states, it borders the Atlantic Ocean, New England, Canada, and the Great Lakes. [c] With almost 19.6 million residents, it is the fourth-most populous state in the United States, [5] and the 27th-largest state by area, with a total ...
A History of New York State by David M. Ellis, James A. Frost, Harold C. Syrett, and Harry J. Carman is a textbook about the social, political, economic, and cultural development of New York State from its earliest beginnings to the middle of the 20th century.
Subcategories. This category has the following 46 subcategories, out of 46 total. History of New York (state) by period (6 C) Pre-statehood history of New York (state) (9 C, 53 P) Histories of cities in New York (state) (10 C, 2 P) History of New York (state) by county (13 C, 5 P)
New York Bill of Rights. The New York Bill of Rights is a constitutional bill of rights first enacted in 1787 as a statute, and then as part of the state's constitution in 1881 in the U.S. state of New York. Today, the New York Bill of Rights can be found in Article I of the New York State Constitution. [1]
In 1617, officials of the Dutch West India Company in New Netherland created a settlement at present-day Albany, and in 1624 founded New Amsterdam, on Manhattan Island.The Dutch colony included claims to an area comprising all of the present U.S. states of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Vermont, along with inland portions of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Maine in addition to eastern ...
1 [a] Voted for winning candidate. 47. Voted for losing candidate. 12. New York state is one the of initial 13 states of America, but due to a deadlock in the state legislature, it did not join the first presidential election in 1788–89. [1][2] However, apart from this election, New York State has participated in all 58 other elections in U.S ...