🌎 Social Studies · Grade 4

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“From Montauk's beaches to the Adirondack peaks, New York has amazing landforms.”

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• The Adirondack Mountains are in the north; the Catskills are in the southeast.
• New York touches the Atlantic Ocean and Long Island Sound.
• The Hudson River and Lakes Erie and Ontario are major waterways.

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“On a political map you can find Albany, your county and the states next door.”

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• Albany is the capital of New York State.
• By the 2020 census: New York City, Buffalo, Yonkers, Rochester and Syracuse.
• Canada borders New York; Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont border it by land.

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“Long before Europeans came, the Haudenosaunee built longhouses and a confederacy united by the Great Law of Peace.”

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• Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca formed the Confederacy; the Tuscarora joined later.
• Families of the same clan lived together in longhouses.
• Clans passed through the mother's family, and clan mothers chose the chiefs.

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“Long Island's first peoples fished, gathered shellfish and made wampum beads from shells.”

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• Algonquian-speaking peoples, like the Munsee, lived in the lower Hudson Valley and on Long Island.
• Shells from Long Island's shores were made into wampum beads.
• Nations such as the Shinnecock and Unkechaug still live on Long Island today.

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“Europeans wanted a water route to Asia. Instead they found New York's harbor, rivers and lakes.”

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• Giovanni da Verrazzano sailed into New York Harbor in 1524.
• In 1609 Henry Hudson sailed up the Hudson River, and Samuel de Champlain reached the lake now named for him.
• Early settlements began as fur-trading posts and missions.

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“The Dutch built New Amsterdam; the English took it over and renamed it New York in 1664.”

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• The Dutch settled New Netherland for the fur trade.
• The English took over and renamed the colony.
• Free Africans lived in the colony, and enslaved Africans were forced to work there.

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“England and France both wanted North America. Many battles of their war were fought in New York.”

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• The French and Indian War lasted from 1754 to 1763.
• Battles were fought at forts like Ticonderoga and Niagara.
• Some Native nations allied with the English and others with the French.

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“The British won the Battle of Long Island in 1776. The American victory at Saratoga in 1777 was the turning point of the war.”

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• The British won and held New York City until 1783.
• An American victory brought France in as an ally.
• New Yorkers were divided.

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“Your town fixes local roads, the state runs the school system, and the nation prints money.”

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• There are three levels of government.
• Each level has branches that make, carry out and interpret laws.
• A state bill must pass the Senate and Assembly, then the governor signs it.

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“Deer Park is a hamlet in the Town of Babylon in Suffolk County. Each level has leaders who serve you.”

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• New York is divided into counties, cities, towns and villages.
• The U.S. and New York constitutions protect our rights.
• Citizens have responsibilities, like voting at 18 and serving on a jury.

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“Slavery existed in New York for a long time. Brave New Yorkers, Black and white, worked to end it.”

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• Slavery ended in New York State on July 4, 1827.
• Frederick Douglass published a newspaper in Rochester, and Harriet Tubman made her home in Auburn.
• New York sent soldiers, supplies and food to help the Union.

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“In the 1800s, women in New York could not vote. In 1848 they met at Seneca Falls to demand change.”

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• Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott led the first women's rights convention.
• Susan B. Anthony and Sojourner Truth spoke out for women's rights.
• Elizabeth Blackwell, who studied in Geneva, New York, became the first woman to earn a medical degree in the U.S.

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“Settlers moved west on turnpikes. Then the Erie Canal (1825) linked Lake Erie to the Hudson River.”

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• The canal connected the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
• Shipping became cheaper and faster, and New York City became the nation's busiest port.
• Cities grew along the canal.

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“The safety elevator, easy-to-use cameras and air conditioning all have New York roots.”

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• Elisha Otis's safety elevator, George Eastman's cameras in Rochester, Willis Carrier's air conditioning.
• Steam engines and the telegraph made travel and messages faster.
• Later, many factory jobs gave way to service and technology jobs.

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“Millions of immigrants sailed past the Statue of Liberty to Ellis Island, looking for a new start.”

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• The Statue of Liberty was dedicated in 1886; Ellis Island opened in 1892.
• After the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911, New York passed new worker safety laws.
• Many African Americans moved north to cities like New York; Harlem became a center of art and music.

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