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Immigration by the Numbers —

Immigration by the Numbers — Off the Charts {I posted this video just to show that numbers is more significant in analysis and that numbers gives more visual impact. I -in no means- attend to uphold the aim of this … Continue reading

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The Land of the dream and the Future ….

     The employments  opportunity  in cities created by the rapid commercial industrial  derived many peoples to immigrate to the city. Chudacoff has divide  this migration  in two waves ,one in 1840 to 1880 and second in 1880 to 1910. In … Continue reading

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The omnibus….

  Chudacoff  stated in chapter 4 :”What had once been the entire walking City now became the Zone of Work, crammed with  offices, stores , and warehouses”(chp4,pg103).the development of mass-transit changed  not only the city and its habitants but also … Continue reading

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Beyond the Civil War…

  “Slavery in New York” is gallery of  a sequence of events that followed slavery  and its root dated with some statistical focuses. the New York city in particular was different from other cities in the south  in terms of … Continue reading

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The war in The city : Riots

                The Web site and the reading  bring to light   the  civil war circumstances  and how it consumed not only wealth but also it consumed the human life as well. it also stressed the  conflict between the union and the … Continue reading

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The lost of treasure …..

  After a brief recession when British left NY in 1783, prices quickly rose on wheat and on other commodities, Alexander Hamilton, leader of the NY federalist created a financial system leading up to the opening of the stock exchange  on … Continue reading

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The primary source ….

If the Revolution period and civil ware are the shifting points an American history , Tyler Anbinder introduced “five points” as  another shifting point in New York city history because this area contained  such multicultural clashes between the ethnic groups … Continue reading

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The Hidden History of New York’s Harbor

Click on the picture to read the article…. The Hidden History of New York’s Harbor Volume 63 Number 6, November/December 2010 By Jarrett A. Lobell

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Safety first …

     Gerard T. Koeppel introduced  the water crisis the city faced in 1830 and how the Manhattan island suffered from limited fresh water supply after eater sources became polluted by effluent. this crisis  caused a deadly sickness among the residences … Continue reading

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History’s Lost Black Towns…..From msn web site

msn web site reported that: on   http://www.theroot.com/multimedia/lost-black-cities?gt1=38002  “Black Americans have played a vital role in building this nation. Eager to live and prosper as free people, we have established our own towns since Colonial times. Many of these communities were … Continue reading

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