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Location of New England (in red) in the United States

New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It is bordered by the state of New York to the west and by the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick to the northeast and Quebec to the north. The Gulf of Maine and Atlantic Ocean is to the east and southeast, and Long Island Sound is to the southwest. Boston is New England's largest city, as well as the capital of Massachusetts. Greater Boston is the largest metropolitan area, with nearly a third of New England's population; this area includes Worcester, Massachusetts (the second-largest city in New England), Manchester, New Hampshire (the largest city in New Hampshire), and Providence, Rhode Island (the capital of and largest city in Rhode Island).

In 1620, the Pilgrims established Plymouth Colony, the second successful English settlement in America, following the Jamestown Settlement in Virginia founded in 1607. Ten years later, Puritans established Massachusetts Bay Colony north of Plymouth Colony. Over the next 126 years, people in the region fought in four French and Indian Wars, until the English colonists and their Iroquois allies defeated the French and their Algonquian allies in America. (Full article...)

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Sir Edmund Andros under arrest

The 1689 Boston revolt was a popular uprising on April 18, 1689, against the rule of Sir Edmund Andros, the governor of the Dominion of New England. A well-organized "mob" of provincial militia and citizens formed in the city and arrested dominion officials. Members of the Church of England, believed by Puritans to sympathize with the administration of the dominion, were also taken into custody by the rebels. Neither faction sustained casualties during the revolt. Leaders of the former Massachusetts Bay Colony then reclaimed control of the government. In other colonies, members of governments displaced by the dominion were returned to power.

Andros, commissioned governor of New England in 1686, had earned the enmity of the local populace by enforcing the restrictive Navigation Acts, denying the validity of existing land titles, restricting town meetings, and appointing unpopular regular officers to lead colonial militia, among other actions. Furthermore, he had infuriated Puritans in Boston by promoting the Church of England, which was disliked by many Nonconformist New England colonists. (Full article...)

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Smith (center) visiting the USSR upon invitation from General Secretary Yuri Andropov

Samantha Reed Smith was an American schoolgirl, peace activist and child actress from Manchester, Maine, who became famous in the Cold War-era United States and Soviet Union. In 1982, Smith wrote a letter to the newly appointed CPSU General Secretary Yuri Andropov, and received a personal reply which included a personal invitation to visit the Soviet Union, which she accepted.

Smith attracted extensive media attention in both countries as a "Goodwill Ambassador", and became known as "America's Youngest Ambassador" participating in peacemaking activities in Japan. She wrote a book about her visit to the Soviet Union and co-starred in the television series Lime Street, before her death at the age of 13 in the Bar Harbor Airlines Flight 1808 plane crash. (Full article...)

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Jacqueline Kennedy throwing the bouquet at her first wedding.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Credit: Toni Frissell (1953)

Jacqueline Kennedy throwing the bouquet at her wedding to then-Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy

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Image 1The New Haven system (from History of New England)
Image 2The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains. (from New England)
Image 3New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University. (from New England)
Image 4Köppen climate types in New England (from New England)
Image 5Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is set on a fictional New England island and was largely filmed in Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 64. Springfield, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 71. Boston, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 8Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States. (from New England)
Image 9A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 10A political and geographical map of New England shows the coastal plains in the southeast, and hills, mountains and valleys in the west and the north. (from New England)
Image 11An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (from New England)
Image 12Boston's Symphony Hall is the home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra—the second-oldest of the Big Five American symphony orchestras. (from New England)
Image 13Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston and spent most of his literary career in Concord, Massachusetts. (from Culture of New England)
Image 14Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) (from New England)
Image 15Certificate of the government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury 1777 (from History of New England)
Image 16World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic ancestry in New England. (from New England)
Image 17A Hartford Line train at Hartford Union Station (from New England)
Image 18Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616. (from New England)
Image 19Ethnic origins in New England (from New England)
Image 20The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 21New England regionalist poet Robert Frost (from New England)
Image 22A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts (from History of New England)
Image 23Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (from New England)
Image 24Largest self-reported ancestry groups in New England. Americans of Irish descent form a plurality in most of Massachusetts, while Americans of English descent form a plurality in much of the central parts of Vermont and New Hampshire as well as nearly all of Maine. (from New England)
Image 25Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies. (from New England)
Image 262. Worcester, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 27A plowed field in Bethel, Vermont (from New England)
Image 287. New Haven, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 296. Stamford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 30The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England. (from New England)
Image 31The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building. (from New England)
Image 32Map of the British and French dominions in America in 1755, showing what the English considered New England (from History of New England)
Image 33Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c. 1910–1913 (from New England)
Image 345. Bridgeport, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 35Bread and Roses Strike. Massachusetts National Guard troops surround unarmed strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912. (from New England)
Image 368. Hartford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 3710. Manchester, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 38The MBTA Commuter Rail serves eastern Massachusetts and parts of Rhode Island, radiating from downtown Boston, with planned service to New Hampshire. The CTrail system operates the Shore Line East and Hartford Line, covering coastal Connecticut, Hartford, and Springfield, Massachusetts. (from New England)
Image 39A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre (from New England)
Image 40The New England Ensign, one of several flags historically associated with New England. This flag was reportedly used by colonial merchant ships sailing out of New England ports, 1686 – c. 1737. (from New England)
Image 41Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England (from New England)
Image 42Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary. (from New England)
Image 43Opera houses and theaters, like the Vergennes Opera House in Vergennes, Vermont, are popular in New England towns. (from Culture of New England)
Image 44An illustration from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (from Culture of New England)
Image 45Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves. (from New England)
Image 46First Boston Latin School house (from History of New England)
Image 479. Cambridge, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 483. Providence, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 49Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity. (from New England)
Image 50Classic New England Congregationalist church in Peacham, Vermont (from Culture of New England)
Image 51Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century (from New England)
Image 52A classic New England Congregational church in Peacham, Vermont (from New England)
Image 53New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy (from New England)
Image 54Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 55A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont (from New England)

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... that the tugboat R. B. Forbes was the first iron mercantile vessel built in New England?

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Flag of Vermont

Vermont
Incorporated 1791
Co-ordinates 44°N 72.7°W

Vermont is the 6th least extensive and the 2nd least populous of the 50 United States. It is the only New England state not bordering the Atlantic Ocean. Lake Champlain forms half of Vermont's western border, which it shares with the state of New York.

Originally inhabited by two major Native American tribes, much of the territory that is now Vermont was claimed by France during its early colonial period. France ceded the territory to the Kingdom of Great Britain after being defeated in 1763 in the French and Indian War. For many years, the nearby colonies, especially New Hampshire and New York, disputed control of the area. Settlers who held land titles granted by these colonies were opposed by the Green Mountain Boys militia, which eventually prevailed in creating an independent state, the Vermont Republic. Founded in 1777 during the Revolutionary War, the republic lasted for fourteen years. Vermont is one of seventeen U.S. states (along with Texas, Hawaii, the brief Republic of West Florida, and each of the original Thirteen Colonies) to have had a sovereign government in the past. In 1791, Vermont joined the United States as the 14th state, the first outside the original 13 Colonies. It abolished slavery while still independent, and upon joining the Union became the first state to have done so. (Full article...)

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