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New England is a region consisting of six states in theNortheastern United States:Connecticut,Maine,Massachusetts,New Hampshire,Rhode Island, andVermont. It is bordered by the state ofNew York to the west and by the Canadian provinces ofNew Brunswick to the northeast andQuebec to the north. TheGulf of Maine and Atlantic Ocean are to the east and southeast, andLong Island Sound is to the southwest.Boston is New England's largest city and the capital of Massachusetts.Greater Boston, comprising the Boston–Worcester–Providence Combined Statistical Area, houses more than half of the region's total population. The Greater Boston area includesWorcester, Massachusetts, the second-largest city in New England;Manchester, New Hampshire, the largest city in New Hampshire; andProvidence, Rhode Island, the capital of and largest city in Rhode Island. In 1620, thePilgrims establishedPlymouth Colony, the second successful settlement inBritish America after theJamestown Settlement inVirginia, founded in 1607. Ten years later,Puritans establishedMassachusetts Bay Colony north of Plymouth Colony. Over the next 126 years, people in the region fought in fourFrench and Indian Wars until the English colonists and theirIroquois allies defeated the French and theirAlgonquian allies.

In the late 18th century, political leaders from the New England colonies initiated resistance to Britain'staxes without the consent of the colonists. Residents of Rhode Islandcaptured and burned a British Royal Navy ship which was enforcing unpopular trade restrictions, and residents of Bostonthrew British tea into the harbor. Britain responded with a series of punitive laws stripping Massachusetts of self-government which the colonists called the "Intolerable Acts". These confrontations led to the first battles of theAmerican Revolutionary War in 1775 and the expulsion of the British authorities from the region in spring 1776. The region played a prominent role in the movement to abolish slavery in the United States, and it was the first region of the U.S. transformed by theIndustrial Revolution, initially centered on theBlackstone andMerrimack river valleys. (Full article...)

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As Maine entered the 18th century, only a half dozen European settlements survived.Patriot and British forces contended for Maine's territory during theAmerican Revolution and theWar of 1812. Maine was part of theCommonwealth of Massachusetts until 1820, when it voted to secede from Massachusetts. On March 15, 1820, it was admitted to the Union as the 23rd state under theMissouri Compromise. Maine is the39th most extensive and the41st most populous of the50 United States.(Full article...)

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