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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 are to the east and southeast, and Long Island Sound is to the southwest. Boston is New England's largest city and 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 settlement in British America after 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. (Full article...)

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Satellite image of Carrie near Massachusetts

Tropical Storm Carrie was a strong tropical storm that affected the East Coast of the United States in early September 1972. The third tropical cyclone of the 1972 Atlantic hurricane season, Carrie formed on August 29 from a complex sequence of meteorological events starting with the emergence of a tropical wave into the Atlantic in the middle of August. Tracking nominally northward throughout its life, Carrie reached an initial peak intensity as a moderate tropical storm before nearly weakening back into tropical depression status. The storm began to reintensify owing to baroclinic processes after turning toward the northwest; its winds of 70 miles per hour (110 km/h) eclipsed the cyclone's previous maximum strength as it was transitioning into an extratropical system. The extratropical remnants of Carrie skirted eastern New England before making landfall in Maine on September 4 and dissipating over the Gulf of Saint Lawrence over the next two days. (Full article...)

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Portrait of Samuel Adams by John Singleton Copley

Samuel Adams was a Massachusetts statesman, politician, writer, and political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Adams was instrumental in garnering the support of the colonies in rebellion against Great Britain, ultimately resulting in the American Revolution. He was also one of the key architects of the principles of American republicanism that shaped American political culture. Adams organized protests against the British, including the Boston Tea Party in 1773, and participated in the Continental Congress. He also advocated for the adoption of the Declaration of Independence at the Second Continental Congress. Following the American Revolution, Adams helped draft the Articles of Confederation. After the war ended, he ran for the House of Representatives in the 1st United States Congressional election, but was unsuccessful in his bid. He was elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in 1789 and after John Hancock's death in 1793, Adams served as the acting governor, until he was elected governor in January of the following year. He served in that position until June 1797 when he decided to retire from politics. (Full article...)

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Boston campaign

Credit: Sir Thomas Hyde Page (1777)

British map of intrenchments during the Boston campaign of the American Revolutionary War

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Image 11. Boston, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 26. Stamford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 3A classic New England Congregational church in Peacham, Vermont (from New England)
Image 4A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont (from New England)
Image 5Boston'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 6A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 73. Providence, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 8The New Haven system (from History of New England)
Image 9Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves. (from New England)
Image 10The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 11Certificate of the government of Massachusetts Bay acknowledging loan of £20 to state treasury 1777 (from History of New England)
Image 12The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England. (from New England)
Image 13First Boston Latin School house (from History of New England)
Image 14An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire. (from New England)
Image 15A 1779 five-shilling note issued by Massachusetts (from History of New England)
Image 16Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC) (from New England)
Image 17Bread and Roses Strike. Massachusetts National Guard troops surround unarmed strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912. (from New England)
Image 18Classic New England Congregationalist church in Peacham, Vermont (from Culture of New England)
Image 19Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is set on a fictional New England island and was largely filmed in Rhode Island (from New England)
Image 207. New Haven, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 21A Hartford Line train at Hartford Union Station (from New England)
Image 229. Cambridge, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 23A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre (from New England)
Image 24An illustration from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (from Culture of New England)
Image 25New England regionalist poet Robert Frost (from New England)
Image 26Largest 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 27The 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 284. Springfield, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 29Köppen climate types in New England (from New England)
Image 30The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building. (from New England)
Image 31Map of the British and French dominions in America in 1755, showing what the English considered New England (from History of New England)
Image 32Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity. (from New England)
Image 33Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies. (from New England)
Image 34A plowed field in Bethel, Vermont (from New England)
Image 35New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University. (from New England)
Image 36Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 37Opera houses and theaters, like the Vergennes Opera House in Vergennes, Vermont, are popular in New England towns. (from Culture of New England)
Image 38Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States. (from New England)
Image 395. Bridgeport, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 40The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains. (from New England)
Image 41Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c. 1910–1913 (from New England)
Image 42Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston and spent most of his literary career in Concord, Massachusetts. (from Culture of New England)
Image 43New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy (from New England)
Image 448. Hartford, Connecticut (from New England)
Image 45Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary. (from New England)
Image 46Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616. (from New England)
Image 47Ethnic origins in New England (from New England)
Image 48Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England (from New England)
Image 492. Worcester, Massachusetts (from New England)
Image 5010. Manchester, New Hampshire (from New England)
Image 51World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic ancestry in New England. (from New England)
Image 52The 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 53Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (from New England)
Image 54Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century (from New England)
Image 55A 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)

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Massachusetts
Incorporated 1775
Co-ordinates 42.3°N 71.8°W

Massachusetts is the 7th least extensive, but the 14th most populous and the 3rd most densely populated of the 50 United States. The state features three separate metropolitan areas: Greater Boston in the east - which also includes all of Rhode Island - and the Springfield and Pittsfield metropolitan areas in the west.

Massachusetts has played a significant historical, cultural, and commercial role in American history. Plymouth was the site of the colony founded in 1620 by the Pilgrims, passengers of the Mayflower. Harvard University, founded in 1636, is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States. In 1692, the towns surrounding Salem experienced one of America's most infamous cases of mass hysteria, the Salem Witch Trials. Originally dependent on fishing, agriculture, and trade, Massachusetts was transformed into a manufacturing center during the Industrial Revolution. In the 21st century, Massachusetts is a leader in higher education, health care technology, high technology, and financial services (Full article...)

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