Mid-Atlantic states

As a Mid-Atlantic States (English: Mid-Atlantic States), a group of states is referred to in the northeastern United States. These include in particular New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Many definitions of the term, such as the United States Census Bureau, are limited to those three States; others also include Delaware, Maryland, Washington, DC, Virginia and West Virginia a.

History

Already since the early colonial period, the mid-Atlantic region was populated by a larger range of European ethnicities than about New England or the South. Around the Hudson River built by the Dutch in the 17th century their colony New Netherland, and on the Delaware River founded the Swedish colony of Nya Sverige 1638 a. In the neighboring British territories often took refuge religious minorities: British Catholics in Maryland, Quakers in Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Dutch -speaking Mennonites and Amish. Even when the region was fully of 1667 in British hands, she remained an attraction for settlers from diverse countries of origin.

Most early settlers were farmers, merchants and fishermen. Due to its location had the region, which was named in colonial times as the Middle Colonies, acting like a strategic bridge between North and South. Philadelphia was the seat of the Continental Congress in 1774, the Assembly of Delegates, which prepared the American Revolutionary War. 1776 Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States in 1787 was drafted in Philadelphia.

After the founding of the United States withdrew the Mid-Atlantic States, where there arose a significant heavy industry, a large number of European immigrants. On the coasts and along the shipping lanes were growing cities such as New York City, Philadelphia and Baltimore zoom to large metropolitan areas.

Adjacent regions

In the West, the Mid-Atlantic States bordering the Midwest; to the south the southern and north-eastern New England. Your natural eastern border finally marked the Atlantic Ocean.

  • Region in the United States
  • Region in North America
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