The New England region of the United States is located in the northeastern corner of the country. Boston is its business and cultural center and its most populated city. The region includes the following states:

• Connecticut
• Maine
• Massachusetts
• New Hampshire
• Rhode Island
• Vermont

New England is perhaps the most well-defined region of the United States, with more uniformity and more shared heritage than other regions of the country. Together, the Mid-Atlantic and New England regions are generally referred to as the Northeastern region of the United States.

1 History

The name dates to the earliest days of European settlement: in 1616 Captain John Smith described the area in a pamphlet "New England." The name was officially sanctioned in 1620 by the grant of King James I to the Plymouth Council for New England. The region was subsequently divided through further grants, including the 1629 royal grant of " Hampshire" which was issued for "makeing a Plantation & establishing of a Colony or Colonyes in the Countrey called or knowen by ye name of New England in America."

Following the Pequot WarThe Pequot War in 1637 saw the virtual elimination of the Pequot Indians as a tribe. The Massachusetts and Connecticut settlers from England and their allies captured or killed most of the Pequots. This article uses the term tribe to describe various band in 1637, the colonies of Massachusetts BayThe Massachusetts Bay Colony (sometimes called by the name Massachusetts Bay Company for the institution that founded it) was the direct predecessor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay and then the state of Massachusetts. The colony was established under, PlymouthThe Plymouth Colony was an English colonial venture in North America from 1620 until 1691. The colony was founded by a separatist Puritan sect, who obtained a land patent from the London Virginia Company in 1620 before that company was dissolved. They fou, New HavenThe New Haven Colony was an English colonial venture in Connecticut in North America from 1637 to 1662. A Puritan minister named John Davenport led his flock from exile in Holland back to England and finally to America in the spring of 1637. The group arr, and ConnecticutThe Connecticut Colony was an English colony that became the U. state of Connecticut. Originally known as the River Colony the colony was established in the 1630s as a haven for Puritan noblemen. After early struggles with the Dutch, the English gained co joined together in a loose compact called the New England ConfederationMercator projection: New England Confederation in yellow The United Colonies of New England commonly known as the New England Confederation was a political and military alliance of the British colonies of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Have. The confederation was designed largely to coordinate mutual defense against the DutchDutch redirects here. For other uses, see Dutch (disambiguation). The Netherlands ( Dutch: Nederland is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, a constitutional monarchy. It is located in northwestern Europe and borders the North Sea, Belgium in the New NetherlandNew Netherland ( Dutch Nieuw-Nederland Latin: Nova Belgica was the territory claimed by the Netherlands on the eastern coast of North America in the 17th century. New Netherland was part of the Dutch colonization of the Americas. The coast was previously colony to the south and the French in New France to the north, as well as to enforce the return of runaway slaves. The confederation had a council comprising two delegates from each of the four colonies, but it had no formal enforcement powers and relied on the individual colonies to voluntarily follow council decisions. The confederation disintegrated in the 1650s when the powerful Massachusetts Bay Colony refused to follow decisions of the confederation council regarding the conflict with the Dutch.

In 1686, King James II, concerned about the increasingly independent ways of the colonies, in particular their open flouting of the Navigation Acts, decreed the Dominion of New England, an administrative union comprising all the New England colonies. Two years later, the provinces of New York and New Jersey, which had been acquired from the Dutch, were added. The union, imposed from the outside, was highly unpopular among the colonists. In 1687, when the Connecticut Colony refused to follow a decision of the dominion governor Edmund Andros, he sent an armed contigent to seize the colony's charter, which the colonists, according to popular legend, hid inside an oak tree. Andros' efforts to unify the colonial defenses met little success and the dominion ceased after only three years, after the removal of King James II in the Glorious Revolution in 1689.

The colonies were not formally united again until 1776, when they became part of the United States.

Aside from the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, or "New Scotland", New England is the only American region to inherit the name of a former kingdom of the British Isles. New England has largely preserved its regional character, especially in its historic sites. Its name is a reminder of the past, as most English have left for the Midwest and Northwest.

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