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New England

New England is the northeastern region of the United States, consisting of the states Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. It is a region with a strong cultural identity, much of which stems from its history as an early English settlement.

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Will New England get a hurricane this summer?

There is no way of predicting what places will be hit by hurricanes in any hurricane season.

What was elementary education in New England?

Education was mandatory for any town with more than fifty families. People in New England believed that if a person could read, they would read the Bible and be saved.

How did the New England make money?

There were a number of ways that the New England colonies made money when they separated from England. They made money by fishing and cutting trees for example.

How was the New England colony arranged?

The colony would start with a group home and a place to defend the colony. Then gradually individuals would build homes and the group home could become a church.

Northern states in New England?

Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut make up New England

Why is there no slavery in New England Colonies?

Actually there WAS slavery in the New England colonies - at least at first.

Slavery became less useful in the New England states as it became more industrialized. Most slaves were used in unskilled labor - those who acquired significant skills found it much easier to escape slavery and set themselves up with income from their skilled labor elsewhere. Lack of demand for unskilled labor made it easier for abolitionists to get the majority to accept that slavery was reprehensible and abolish it in New England much earlier than in states with more agrarian economies and consequently more need for lots of cheap unskilled labor - which slavery provided.

What date did the puritans leave New England?

the puritans left New England because they didn't like dissenters ways and they questioned the dissenters an they were miss treated

Where is the Geographical center of New England?

Dunbarton, NH

Sanford, Maine and Wakefield, NH have both claimed it, but then someone asked, "Where does the true center lie? Surely in this age of MapQuest and Google Earth someone could come up with an accurate and impartial answer."

That person was Suchi Gopal, professor in Boston University's Department of Geography and Environment, and Center for Remote Sensing. Assisted by her graduate students Hirshikesh Patel and Jared Newell, Gopal used the center of gravity, or "centroid," method. "A mathematical calculation that uses a digital representation of the six New England states is the most accurate because it's based on a math algorithm that the computer uses to calculate the center based on the boundaries," Gopal said. Her calculation, she added, also took into account the irregular coastline of Maine and the islands off the coast of Massachusetts.

And the answer? A place located at 43.117199 degrees latitude and -71.593498 degrees longitude, some 50 miles southwest of Wakefield and Sanford and only a few miles from the intersection of Interstates 93 and 89: Dunbarton, N.H., population 2,600.

Excerpted from an article titled, "Lots of heart, but only one center", written for The Boston Globe, by Ethan Gilsdorf, Globe Correspondent

What were the first schools in new England called?

The first schools in New England were (dame schools)