New England

New England

States

• New England is a region in the northeast of the US consisting of 6 states

• Maine

• New Hampshire

• Vermont

• Massachusetts

• Rhode Islands

• Connecticut

Cities

• Boston (Massachusetts) is the largest city in New England (645 000), part of the metropolitan area “Greater Boston”

• Plymouth (Massachusetts) is the oldest city, where the first passengers of the Mayflower ship grounded the Plymouth Colony

• Cambridge (Massachusetts) – Harvard College is there

• New Heaven (Connecticut) – Yale University is there

• Worchester – the second largest city in New England

Famous Americans of this region

• 85% of the population are White Americans (the most in the US)

• 1/5 of the population has Irish roots, Puritans

• Sir John Smith – gave the region its name

• Samuel Slater – established a cotton-spinning mill that revolutionized the textile production

• Benjamin Franklin – one of the founding fathers of the USA

• Edgar Allan Poe – born in Boston (Massachusetts)

• Jack Kerouac – born in Lowell

Others

• New England is a centre of education, technology and medicine

• Education:

  • Universities of the Ivy league are located in the region

  • Harvard College (Boston, Massachusetts)

  • Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut, the first university to award Ph.D.)

  • Brown University

  • Dartmouth College

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (an elite and modern engineering university)

• It has a very diverse geography

  • Rolling hills, mountains and lakes in the inland

  • Swamps and sandy beaches on the coast

  • Connecticut river, Lake Champlain

• Before the stock market crash (1929) it used to be America’s richest and most cultured region

• After that it was economically depressed, politically corrupt and defeated

• Now they are leaders in education and a popular touristic region