Английский язык 9класс проект про нью йорк

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OlegSEM

14 марта 2017 г., 16:47:14 (7 лет назад)

In the territory, where today is New York City, long before the arrival of Europeans lived tribes Manahattou and Canarsie. This is confirmed by findings of arrowheads and other artifacts in areas of the city, the buildings are not built, for example, Inwood Hill Park and Riverside Park. European settlements appeared here in 1624. In 1625, on the southern tip of Manhattan was founded by the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam (niderl. Nieuw Amsterdam). In 1664, the city was captured by the British, met with no resistance from the governor Stёyvesanta, after which the town was renamed New York (English. New York), after the capture of the initiator - the Duke of York. According to the results of the Second Anglo-Dutch War in 1667, the Dutch formally handed New York to the British in exchange for the colony of Suriname. 
At the beginning of the War of Independence, the modern area of ​​the city was the scene of important battles. As a result of the Battle of Brooklyn in Brooklyn started a large fire that burned much of the city. New York came under British control until the Americans once again not seized them in 1783. This day, known as "Evacuation Day", later celebrated in New York for many years. 

Broadway, about 1840 During the XIX century, the population of the city grew rapidly due to the influx of a large number of immigrants. In 1811, it developed a visionary master plan for the city that the street network was expanded to cover all of Manhattan. By 1835 New York outscored Philadelphia in population, becoming the largest city in the United States. 
During the Civil War the city strong trade ties with the South, as well as its growing immigrant population has led to a split between supporters of the Union and Confederate supporters, who reached the highest glow in riots because of the call - the biggest civil unrest in American history. 
After the war, the rate of immigration from Europe grew even stronger, and New York became the first stop for millions of people coming to the United States in search of new and better life. 
In 1859, in the article "Population, crime and pauperism," published in the American newspaper "New York Daily Tribune," Karl Marx wrote: