-       As director-general, Stuyvesant restricted religious freedoms in New Amsterdam. He restricted the Jewish, African American, and Native American populations in the colony

-   Longest patroonship, ran 20 years after Rensselaer’s death

-       Increased the colony’s wealth and collected a private fortune despite conflicts with numerous respected people in New Netherland colony

-       It gave the British significant control of New York

-       These inducements to foster colonization and settlement (aka “Rights and Exemptions”), are the basis for the patroon system

-       This allowed them liberty in exchange for an annual tribute to the company and a promise to work at certain times on company projects such as fortifications or public works

-       Andros managed to negotiate several treaties of the Covenant Chain with the Iroquois, establishing a long-lived peace involving the colonies and other tribes that interacted with the confederacy

-       Beginning in 1689, he led a revolt called Leisler’s Rebellion in colonial New York, seizing control of the colony until he was captured and executed in NYC for treason for William and Mary

-       He argued against ratification of the United States Constitution, maintaining that the power granted to the national government to regulate commerce would undermine NY’s commercial advantages

-       He became the leader of the Federalist Party, created largely in support of his views, and was opposed by the Democratic-Republican Party

-       Trinity Church is near the intersection of Wall Street and Broadway, in NYC

-       He traveled through all of the American colonies and drew great crowds and media coverage, he was one of the most widely recognized public figures in colonial America

-       Participants became passionately and emotionally involved in their religion

-       Created duke of York in 1644

-       Mainly created to carry on economic warfare against Spain and Portugal by striking at their colonies in the West Indies and South American and on the west coast of Africa

-       After the war, many Loyalists settled in other British colonies or in Canada

-       When the homes of several prominent New Yorkers mysteriously burned, nearly half of Manhattan’s male slaves were jailed; before the witch hunt was over, dozens had been hanged or burned alive

-       People began to see opportunities in overseas trade, or in businesses where New Yorkers could organize their own production and trade

-       In 1808, the company sold its waterworks, pocketing 1.9 million dollars to the city and turned completely to banking

-       He got the construction for the Erie Canal approved and improved trade greatly shrinking shipping cost and making it more efficient

-       Profits, prices and wages went down while unemployment went up

-       The Regency ended when Marcy was defeated in the election for Governor of NY by the opposing Whig’s candidate William H. Seward in 1838, which led to a radical change in state politics