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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 17:35, 6 June 2019: 7,003 × 8,786 (13.33 MB): Michael Barera == {{int:filedesc}} == {{Map |title = ''Map of Texas with Parts of the Adjoining States'' |description = {{en|A requirement of the Anglo-American ''empresario'' Stephen F. Austin's contract with the Mexican government included compiling a map of his Texas colony, which he ...
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 ...
The Middle Colonies consisted of the present-day states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware and were characterized by a large degree of religious, political, economic, and ethnic diversity. [59] The Dutch colony of New Netherland was taken over by the English and renamed New York.
The federal government accepted the cession from New York of its western claims, which the state ceded on February 19, 1780, and executed on March 1, 1781; New York proclaimed its new western border to be a line drawn south from the western end of Lake Ontario.
A map of the United States showing land claims and cessions from 1782 to 1802. The state cessions are the areas of the United States that the separate states ceded to the federal government in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
The 2003 Texas redistricting of Congressional districts led by Republican Tom DeLay, was called by the New York Times "an extreme case of partisan gerrymandering". [196] A group of Democratic legislators, the "Texas Eleven", fled the state in a quorum -busting effort to prevent the legislature from acting, but was unsuccessful. [ 197 ]
The Province of New York thrived during this time, its economy strengthened by Long Island and Hudson Valley agriculture, in conjunction with trade and artisanal activity at the Port of New York; the colony was a breadbasket and lumberyard for the British sugar colonies in the Caribbean. New York's population grew substantially during this ...
The history of New York City (1665–1783) began with the establishment of English rule over Dutch New Amsterdam and New Netherland. As the newly renamed City of New York and surrounding areas developed, there was a growing independent feeling among some, but the area was divided in its loyalties.