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    New England is a region in northeastern United States that includes the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. It was named by Captain John Smith in 1614 and was settled by English Puritans seeking religious freedom. New England developed representative governments with an emphasis on civil liberties and evolved from a self-sufficient agricultural economy to also include shipbuilding and international trade. The region played a leading role in the American Revolution and abolition movement and transformed to an industrial economy in the 19th century before transitioning to high technology and services in the late 20th century.

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    New England is a region in northeastern United States that includes the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. It was named by Captain John Smith in 1614 and was settled by English Puritans seeking religious freedom. New England developed representative governments with an emphasis on civil liberties and evolved from a self-sufficient agricultural economy to also include shipbuilding and international trade. The region played a leading role in the American Revolution and abolition movement and transformed to an industrial economy in the 19th century before transitioning to high technology and services in the late 20th century.

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    New England is a region in northeastern United States that includes the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. It was named by Captain John Smith in 1614 and was settled by English Puritans seeking religious freedom. New England developed representative governments with an emphasis on civil liberties and evolved from a self-sufficient agricultural economy to also include shipbuilding and international trade. The region played a leading role in the American Revolution and abolition movement and transformed to an industrial economy in the 19th century before transitioning to high technology and services in the late 20th century.

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    New England
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    New England, region, northeastern United States, including the states of Maine, New
    Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.

    The region was named by Capt. John Smith, who


    explored its shores in 1614 for some London
    merchants. New England was soon settled by English
    Puritans whose aversion to idleness and luxury served
    admirably the need of fledgling communities where
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    United States: New England the work to be done was so prodigious and the hands
    New England. so few. During the 17th century the population’s high
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    esteem for an educated clergy and enlightened
    leadership encouraged the development of public
    schools as well as such institutions of higher learning
    as Harvard (1636) and Yale (1701). Isolated from the
    mother country, New England colonies evolved
    representative governments, stressing town meetings,
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    Simon van de Passe: John Smith an expanded franchise, and civil liberties. The area
    John Smith, engraving by Simon van
    de Passe, 1616. was initially distinguished by the self-sufficient farm,
    Courtesy of the trustees of the British
    but its abundant forests, streams, and harbours soon
    Museum; photograph, J.R. Freeman &
    Co. Ltd. promoted the growth of a vigorous shipbuilding
    industry as well as of seaborne commerce across the
    Atlantic Ocean.

    In the 18th century, New England became a hotbed of revolutionary agitation for
    independence from Great Britain, and its patriots played leading roles in establishing the
    new nation of the United States of America. In the early decades of the republic, the region
    strongly supported a national tariff and the policies of the Federalist Party. In the 19th
    century, New England was characterized culturally by its literary flowering and a deep
    evangelical dedication that frequently manifested itself in zeal for reform: temperance,
    abolition of slavery, improvements in prisons and insane asylums, and an end to child
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    labour. The antislavery movement finally came to predominate, however, and New
    England stoutly supported the cause of the Union in the American Civil War (1861–65).

    As the American frontier pushed westward, migrants


    from New England transplanted their region’s
    patterns of culture and government to new frontiers in
    the Midwest. The Industrial Revolution successfully
    invaded New England in this period, and
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    Wendell Phillips manufacturing came to dominate the economy. Such
    Abolitionist Wendell Phillips speaking products as textiles, shoes, clocks, and hardware were
    against the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
    at an antislavery meeting in Boston. In distributed as far west as the Mississippi River by the
    the rigorous moral climate of New
    itinerant Yankee peddler. Both before and after the
    England, slavery was anathema, and
    much of the fire and righteousness of American Civil War, a new labour force from Ireland
    the abolition movement originated
    there. and eastern Europe flooded New England’s urban
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    centres, causing an ethnic revolution and forcing the
    traditional Protestant religions to share their authority
    with Roman Catholicism.

    The 20th century witnessed many changes in New England. In the years following World
    War II, the region’s once-flourishing textile and leather-goods industries virtually deserted
    the region for locations farther south. This loss came to be offset by advances in the
    transport-equipment industry and such high-technology industries as electronics, however,
    and by the late 20th century New England’s continued prosperity seemed assured owing to
    the proliferation of high-technology and service-based economic enterprises in the region.

    The Editors of Encyclopaedia BritannicaThis article was most recently revised and updated by Adam
    Augustyn, Managing Editor, Reference Content.

    Citation Information
    Article Title: New England
    Website Name: Encyclopaedia Britannica
    Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
    Date Published: 03 June 2021
    URL: https://www.britannica.com/place/New-England
    Access Date: September 24, 2021

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