Can Anyone tell me 6 facts about pre colonial new york? in the 1600-1700's? i can't find any.?

Question

its for an in-class project

Answer 1

Then you can't have looked very hard.

First of all, 1600-1700 isn't exactly precolonial.

Assuming you mean the City of New York, it was New Amsterdam, and remained so until the English booted the Dutch out of the fur trade.

Wall street was a wall.

About 25% of the white population was named Brin(c)kerhoff.

Indians and Blacks were slaves in N.Y.

Many whites were indentured servants which was the same as slavery except for the name, but white slavery (and Indian slavery) are not P.C. topics these days, it is considered a Black monopoly.

Neighborhoods now a part of NY (such as Harlem) were individual settlements.

You could drink the water.

What is now Central Park was farmland, with no trees or ponds.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

It was very limited in area (lower Manhattan most populous).

Most of its commercial activity occured because of its deep harbor.

Peter Stuyvesant was its most famous governor.

Fur trapping was an important source of export money.

Farms were gigantic since land was cheap (some like Van Cortland remain as parks today).

There were a lot of fortifications built to protect the settlers because of the conflicts back in Europe.

Answer 4

Do a search on the Mohawk or Huron tribes.

Do a search on Henry Hudson and Dutch settlers too...

Answer 5

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