New England, a collective name given to the six Eastern States of the United States of America—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut—embracing an area of 65,000 sq. m. The people, distinctively known as Yankees, are celebrated for industry and enterprise. The joint population in 1890 was 4,692,904; this is more than one-thirteenth of the entire population of the republic, while the area of New England is less than one-fiftieth of the total area of the United States. For the influence of the Puritans who settled here, see Fiske, The Beginnings of New England (1889).
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