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The Founding of New England (1921) online edition and Project Gutenberg. Revolutionary New England, 1691–1776 (1923) online; New England in the Republic, 1776–1850 (1926) online; Andrews, Charles M. The Fathers of New England: A Chronicle of the Puritan Commonwealths (1919), short survey. online edition; Buell, Lawrence.
The half-century period before the Civil War, more generally between 1800 and 1900, saw the "development of New England manufactures and the rise of new factory villages and towns". [5] This brought about significant changes to the agricultural system in the region, specifically through new demands for raw materials and food.
The Thirteen Colonies in their traditional groupings were: the New England Colonies (New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut); the Middle Colonies (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware); and the Southern Colonies (Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia). [2]
The earliest colonies in New England were usually fishing villages or farming communities on the more fertile land along the rivers. The rocky soil in the New England Colonies was not as fertile as the Middle or Southern Colonies, but the land provided rich resources, including lumber that was highly valued.
Out of the Dark: A History of Radio and Rural America (2009) Cronon, William. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England (Hill and Wang, 1983) Cronon, William. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West (W.W. Norton, 1991), major scholarly study of Chicago's relationship to its vast rural hinterland
The Connecticut Colony, originally known as the Connecticut River Colony, was an English colony in New England which later became the state of Connecticut.It was organized on March 3, 1636, as a settlement for a Puritan congregation of settlers from the Massachusetts Bay Colony led by Thomas Hooker.
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History of New England: History of New England During the Stuart Dynasty. Boston: Little, Brown. OCLC 1658888. Stanwood, Owen (2007). "The Protestant Moment: Antipopery, the Revolution of 1688–1689, and the Making of an Anglo-American Empire". Journal of British Studies. 46 (3): 481– 508. doi:10.1086/515441. JSTOR 10.1086/515441. S2CID ...