Introduction

Im Kaleah as you know.

This is going to be all about
my home place New York. I
have much respect for this
place because my mom go
stationed here first. But
enough about me, Did you
know the woman in most of
the native tribes
empowered most of the

Facts

The dutch
actually
settled in New

Giovanni de
Verrazano first
explored New York
in the year 1524.

Facts

Soon after they

settled the dutch
built trading along
the Hudson River in

The dutch first named

the colony New
Netherland which was
soon changed to New
Amsterdam

Economy
The dutch sent
European tools
and supplies to
the natives for
their valuable
animal fur.
They sold different
varieties of
lumber and fur.

(Of
course
they
used
the fur
to
make
coats)

Economy Continued...
There livestock included of eggs
from poultry, meat from hogs,
and fur from the sheep.
In case you didnt know livestock
is farm animals regarded as a
useful or valuable asset.
They were mostly farmers who
cleared large landfills to grow
crops by hand.
They are most popular for
growing corn but they cropped

Slavery
In 1626 a dutch western india company imported 11
african slave, Even after they were freed most black
new yorkers were enslaved.
By 1703 more than 42 percent of New York Cities
households held 1 to 2 slaves.
By 1780 ten thousand black people lived in new york,
They were mostly slaves that escaped from
slaveholders in the north and south.
After the war, three thousand slaves were exported
with the british. Mostly being taken to work for them

 Geography
The soil was rich enough to
be well-suited for farming, as
was the wonderful climate.
New york was apart of the
breadbasket because its of
richness of soil and
advantageous climate.This
allows to produce a great
amount of wheat or other

Geography Continued
New yorkers mainly
grew barley, oat, rye,
and wheat mainly
because they could
grow large amounts of
it in little time.
New york had large
mountains in the
northeast, Usually they
had hot and humid
summers that made it
easy to grow plenty of