1. History of New York City
From „Manna-hatta“ to Big Apple

2. Index Lenni-Lenape-Indians & The Dutch West India Company
The Duke* of York
18th century
19th century
20th century
Prohibition
Immigrants
1945+
Vocabulary: Duke (= Herzog)

3. Lenni-Lenape-Indians & The Dutch West India Company
In 1610, Dutch merchants bought furs from the Lenni-Lenape-Indians
4 years later, the “Compagnie van Nieuwnederlant” was founded by the Dutch
In 1621, “The Dutch West India Company” gained a trade monopoly from “Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden”
In 1624, Manhattan was settled by 30 Dutch families
Vocabulary: fur (=Fell)

4. In 1626 a man called Peter Minuit bought Manhattan for 60 guilders*
He named it “Nieu Amsterdam” and made it the capital of “Nieu Nederlant”, the Dutch colony
It led the city in a crime city full of chaos, corruption, high crime rate
The “Dutch West India Company” reacted in 1647, they built one hospital, one school and one prison
Petrus Stuyvesant arranged a wall to be built
In 1653, Nieu Amsterdam gained its municipal law*
Vocabulary: guilder (=Gulden), municipal law (= Stadtrecht)

5. War between RZVN* and GB
Englishmen looted* Nieu Nederlant
In 1664 the Governor Petrus Stuyvesant resigned and gave the colony to the Duke of York
In compliment to the Duke, the city was named “New York”
Vocabulary: RZVN (= Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden), loot (=plündern)

6. 18th century
GB accepted the Declaration of Independence, their army left NY
Two large fires destroyed broad parts of NY in 1783 / 1785
From 1784 to 1789, NY was the capital of the USA
NY developed to an economic metropolis
In 1792 the stock-market was founded
Vocabulary: economic metropolis (= Wirtschaftsmetropole), stock-market (=Börse)

7. 19th century
In 1811 John Randal proposed to shape NY’s streets in a raster
In 1825 the Erie-canal was opened – it connected the great lakes with NY
New York developed to a place of transshipment
In 1892 the five parts of today’s NY fused together to form one “Greater New York”

8. Economic Boom 1883 1883 1835 – Host of the World Exposition (Expo)
1886

9. 20th century
After World War I the time of the „Golden Twenties“ followed
On 20th October 1929 the market collapsed (Black Friday)
This led into an big increasing of the rate of unemployment: every fourth men was jobless

10. Prohibition ( )
The New Yorkers evaded problem-free the sanctions of the prohibition -> the number of pubs was nearly doubled – but all were illegal:
The police must not know where the pubs were, so you had to “speak easy”, as the pubs were further called as well.
The new elected president Roosevelt raised the prohibition in 1933.
Vocabulary: speak easies (=“Flüsterkneipen”)

11. Immigrants Many immigrants from Europe came to NY to start a new life
This led into conflicts which discharged in violence, e.g. “Draft Riots” in 1863, a two-days civil war which claimed 2000 victims and 100 destroyed buildings
Vocabulary: discharged (=entladen)

12. After 1945 The economic boomed anew after the World War II
Immigration of many Puerto Ricans; called themselves „Neuyoricans“
1946 NY become permanent place of the UN

13. Enclosed an apt quotation: (by Herbert G. Wells)
„To Europe she was America, to America she was the gateway of the earth.
But to tell the story of New York would be to write a social history of the world“

14. History of NY
Communicated by
Dennis Luttermann
and
Christoph Stahl
Sources used:
de.wikipedia.org
bigappleweb.vitara.de