New York

Examples of New York in the following topics:

• New York

  • The New York School was an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s and 1960s in New York.
  • The New York School (which is most often associated with abstract expressionist painting) was an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s and 1960s in New York City.
  • The Ninth Street Art exhibition was not only a showing of a remarkable amount of work from leading abstract expressionists and notable New York artists, it was also the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde.
  • Clyfford Still, 1957-D No. 1, 1957, oil on canvas, 113 x 159 in, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
  • Still was one of the leading figures of the New York School of abstract expressionism.

• Bibliography

  • New York, David McKay & Co.
  • New York, McGraw-Hill.
  • New York, McGraw-Hill.
  • New York, McGraw-Hill.
  • New York, Ballantine.

• The Conquest of New York

  • In March, 1665, the Duke of York was granted a Royal colony which included New Netherland and present-day Maine.
  • The Duke of York never visited his colony, named New York in his honor, and exercised little direct control over it.
  • In 1665, the Province of New Jersey was created from a portion of New York, but the border was not finalized until 1765.
  • New York became a royal province in February of 1685 when its proprietor, the Duke of York, was crowned King James II of England.
  • This map shows the changing boundaries of the colony of New York from the 17th to 18th centuries.

• The New York School

  • The New York School was an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s and 1960s in New York City.
  • Many artists from all across the U.S. arrived in New York City to seek recognition, and by the end of the decade the list of artists associated with the New York School had greatly increased.
  • It was a historical, ground-breaking exhibition, gathering of a number of notable artists, and it was the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School.
  • There are also commonalities between the New York School and the members of the beat generation poets active in 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s New York City, including Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William S.
  • Explain what the New York School is known for and who its proponents were

• Washington's Escape from New York

  • Although Howe was successful in driving Washington out of New York City, he was unsuccessful in taking New Jersey.
  • The British gained control of New York harbor and the surrounding agricultural areas, and held New York City and Long Island until the war ended in 1783.
  • The areas around New York City in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut were an ongoing battleground for the rest of the war.
  • Map of the New York-New Jersey Campaign during the American Revolution.
  • Map of the New York-New Jersey Campaign during the American Revolution.

• Charles Finney and the Burned-Over District

  • The "Burned-Over District" in central and western New York was so named due to the rampant religious revivals of the nineteenth century.
  • He led revival meetings in New York and Pennsylvania, but his greatest success occurred after he accepted a ministry in Rochester, New York, in 1830.
  • Western New York still had a frontier quality at the time, making professional and established clergy scarce.
  • The first communal Shaker farm was established in this area of New York during this period.
  • Identify the key religious movements that emerged out of the western New York frontier

• The Holdouts: Virginia and New York

  • New York and Virginia both faced ratification battles on ideological grounds.
  • Hamilton, Madison, and Jay wrote a series of commentaries under the name of "Publius", now known as the Federalist Papers, in support of the new instrument of government; however, the primary aim of the essays was to aid ratification in the state of New York, at that time a hotbed of anti-federalism.
  • Whether they were primarily responsible for New York's eventual ratification of the Constitution, however, is questionable.
  • Furthermore, by the time New York came to a vote, 10 states had already ratified the Constitution and it had thus already passed—the earlier ratification of the Constitution in Virginia, the tenth state to do so, placed extra pressure on New York to also ratify.
  • Examine the reasons why New York and Virginia hesitated to support the ratification of the Constitution

• Quebec, New York, and New Jersey

  • In the early stages of the American Revolution, battles over Quebec, New York, and New Jersey played an important role in the war.
  • The failure of the Continental Army to hold New York strengthened Loyalist sentiment in the region.
  • News of the capture of New York was favorably received in London, and General Howe was awarded the Order of the Bath for his work.
  • The victory also drew General Charles Cornwallis from New York.
  • The Continental Army was bolstered during these skirmishes by a large number of militia from New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania.

• Settling the Middle Colonies

  • The Middle Colonies later became the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.
  • In the 1660s, the English largely conquered this land, renaming the area New York after the Duke of York, James II.
  • From 1701 to 1765, colonists skirmished in the New York-New Jersey Line War over disputed colonial boundaries.
  • The Dutch Reformed were strong in upstate New York and New Jersey, and Congregationalists were important in Long Island.
  • The Middle Colonies was comprised of Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania.

• New Jersey

  • King Charles II gave the region between New England and Maryland to his brother, the Duke of York (later King James II), which was renamed New York.
  • The governors of New York then ruled New Jersey, which infuriated the settlers of New Jersey.
  • They accused the governor of showing favoritism to New York.
  • Some townships emerged as important ports for shipping to New York and Philadelphia.
  • Bowen Map of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and New England; ca. 1747