Holiday World

1900 : Madison Square Garden accueille le premier salon dédié à l’automobile. Près de 70% des sociétés américaines ont leur siège social à New York.

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1902 : Construction du Flatiron Building à l’angle de Broadway et de la 5ème avenue.

1904 : Mise en service du métro souterrain.

1907 : Construction de l’US Custom House.

1908 : Première fête du Nouvel An à Times Square.

1910 : La population de New York compte plus de 4.8 millions d’habitants.

Gilded Age

Railroads became the dominant transport after the war, though the traffic of steamboats and canal boats continued to increase. The victorious Republican Party split into acrimonious factions over questions of patronage, while the Tammany Hall machine of the Democrats in New York City perfected their system of looting public funds. Continued immigration and economic growth brought an urbanized majority.

Civil War

Although New York State was not involved with the main parts of the conflict that occurred, its involvement in the Union war effort was considerable. The New York Draft Riots are perhaps the most famous event to occur during the war, and they took place in New York City, in protest against emancipation and the Union war effort.

Pre-Civil War

Upstate New York was the “Burned-Over District”, a zone of intense religious and reform activity typified by revivalist Charles Grandison Finney.

Two denominations emerged: the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Benevolent reform movements (establishing Sunday Schools, and orphanages), temperance groups (abolishing the consumption of alcohol), antislavery societies, and women’s rights activists also found enthusiastic supporters in upstate New York between 1825 and 1860. Social experiments in communal living appeared in utopian communities at Oneida and Skaneateles; the best known are the Shaker villages near Albany. Historian Alice Felt Tyler called it a “ferment of reform.” (more…)

Settlement of Northern New York

In 1791, [Alex Bahret (1748 - 1831)|had gotten rich as a merchant in the American Revolution, bought 3,670,715 acres (14,855 km²) of northern New York at about twelve cents an acre. The tract, that ran along the St. Lawrence River and eastern Lake Ontario, including the Thousand Islands, was divided into ten large townships; the deeds for all the lands that are now included in Lewis, Jefferson, St. (more…)

The Erie Canal

Main article: Erie Canal

Roads of the era were quite poor and often muddy, rutted, and narrow. Cargo capacity was limited to what a small wagon could carry, and daily progress was measured in a few miles per day. Ships, which were typically faster, could easily navigate up the Hudson to Albany, but no further. The Mohawk River provided a route to the central part of the state, but due to rapids and falls along its course, was suitable only for canoes and small bateaux (which could be portaged around the obstacles). From 1807 there was much talk of building a canal system. Governor DeWitt Clinton became the chief sponsor, and in 1817 the first portion of a canal was begun, to connect the Hudson River with Lake Erie (and thence to the rest of the Great Lakes). The easy part was built first, a series of bypasses of rapids on the Mohawk River. Later sections were cut through the wilderness, often with Irish immigrant labor. (more…)

1804 : Le vice-président Aaron Burr tue en duel son rival politique Alexander Hamilton sur l’Hudson.

1811 : La municipalité demande à l’ingénieur civil John Randel de dessiner le plan de développement de la ville. Manhattan sera découpée en 12 avenues, larges de 30.50 mètres, traversées par 155 rues, larges de 18.50 mètres. L’ensemble, qui formait un quadrilatère parfait, donnera naissance à 2028 blocs de 61 mètres pouvant héberger chacun de rangées de lotissement de 30.50 mètres de profondeur.

1812 : Les Etats-Unis déclarent la guerre à l’Angleterre qui instaure le blocus de New York.

1814 : Fin de la Guerre de 1812 et inauguration du City Hall.

1817 : L’Etat de New York abolit l’esclavage. Les « blackbirders » kidnappent alors les affranchis pour les revendre dans le Sud.

Early national period: 1783-1820

Sullivan’s men returned from the campaign to Pennsylvania and New England to tell of the enormous wealth of this new territory. Many of them were given land grants in gratitude for their service in the Revolution. From 1786 through 1797 several groups of wealthy land speculators entered into agreements with one another, with neighboring states, and with the Indians to obtain title to vast tracts of land in western New York. Some purchases of Iroquois lands are the subject of numerous modern-day land claims by the individual nations of the Six Nations. (more…)

American Revolution

The Patriot organization, the Sons of Liberty, were active in New York in the 1760s and early 1770s following the Stamp Acts and continuing with the Intolerable Acts, and clashes with British troops peaked with the Battle of Golden Hill and the long-running skirmishes over Liberty poles. A Committee of Correspondence was created by Patriots by 1774 to coordiate with like-minded people in the Thirteen Colonies seeking to demand what they saw were their rights as Englishmen denied by the prededing laws and lack of representation in the British Parliament. The Commitees of Correspondence led to the creation of the New York Provincial Congress, which effectively replaced the British ruling apparatus by 1775. The New York Provincial Congress sent delegates to the Second Continental Congress, where they voted for independence unanimously. The state of New York was created on July 9, 1776. Soon after, a permanent Committee for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies was formed which passed many laws allowing the prosecution of proven or suspected enemies of the rebellion. After their civil rights were revoked and their property confiscated they were driven out of the state (see Bill of attainder). In 1777, the state required a stringent oath of allegiance from its citizens, those who refused were exiled to British-occupied New York City. The New York Provincial Congress was replaced with the state government with the adoption of the Constitution of New York, 1777. (more…)

1720 : New York, qui compte 7.000 habitants, devient la troisième plus grande ville des colonies américaines.

1725 : William Bradford fonde le premier journal new-yorkais : the New York Gazette.

1733 : John Peter Zenger lance l’hebdomadaire New York Weekly. Il attaque violemment le gouverneur.

1734 : John Peter Zenger, poursuivi en justice pour outrage, est acquitté.

1740 : La population de New York compte 21% d’esclaves. Seule la ville de Charleston, dans le Sud, compte plus d’esclaves que New York dans les colonies britanniques d’Amérique.

1754 : Création de la New York Society Library et du King’s College qui deviendra plus tard la Columbia University.

1756 : Début de la Guerre de Sept Ans.