New York City History for Kids: From New Amsterdam to the Big Apple with 21 Activities
For Carl Maria Herman and Sophia
Acknowledgments o MANY PEOPLE have fostered my love for New York City over the years Thanks to my Stuyvesant High School teacher Philip Scandura for his fascinating class on the history of New York Thanks to my edi tor Jerome Pohlen and the folks at Chicago Review Press for proposing this topic A special thanks to my family and my friends for supporting and encouraging me And thanks to you New York City Love
NovMAN TE Rob Any ET Time Line 1600s 1524 Giovanni da Verrazano becomes the first European to visit New York harbor 1609 Henry Hudson sails up the river that now bears his name 1614 Adriaen Block and his crew are stranded on Manhattan Island when his ship burns
1624 First permanent settlement is named New Amsterdam 1626 Peter Minuit purchases Manhattan Island from the natives 1643 Kieft's War 45 1664 Peter Stuyvesant surrenders New Amster dam to the English 1673 Dutch regain control of the city 74 1678 Bolting Act gives New York a flour making monopoly 1683 Dongan Charter outlines city government 1689 Leisler Rebellion 91 1700s 1735 Newspaper publisher John Peter Zenger is tried
