Confederacy of New England

The Confederacy of New England Boston and Surrounding Provinces
Motto: Vitam ac Libertatem
Anthem: "The Road to Boston"
Boston is green
Capital		Boston
Largest		New York City
Official languages		English
Recognised national languages		English
Recognised regional languages		Various Native tounges
Demonym		Bostonian
Government		Constitutional Democratic Republic
-	President	Aidan Towson
Legislature		House of Representatives
Establishment
-	Constitutional Democratic Republic	April 17th, 1789
Population
-	2010 census	45,197,622
GDP (PPP)		estimate
-	Total	$41,313,999,811,968.52
-	Per capita	$32,530.71
Currency		Boston Dollar (BaSP$)
Time zone		Eastern United States
Date format		mm/dd/yyyy
Drives on the		right
Calling code		098
Internet TLD		.com

Overview

The Confederacy of New England (kənfɛdərəsi əv nu ɪŋglənd), also known as Boston and Surrounding Provinces (bastən ænd sərawndɪŋ pravənsəz), is a confederation located along the central eastern shore of North America.

New England was formed in 1789 after the War for New Englander Independence.

The Confederacy of New England has been considered to be a "melting pot," of ethnicities, especially since the annexation of New York and Long Island in 2014.

New England is known for it's high number of militias, which dwarf the size of the official military. Template:TOC left

Etymology

The Confederacy of New England received it's name in the early 1600s when Captain John Smith explored the area, and named it "New England" in honor of his mother country.

The name was made official at the Constitutional Convention in 1788.

History

Native American and European contact (12,000 BC - 1600 AD)

The first North American settlers migrated from Siberia by way of the Bering land bridge approximately 15,000 or more years ago. Some, such as the pre-Columbian Mississippian culture, developed advanced agriculture, grand architecture, and state-level societies. After European explorers and traders made the first contacts, the native population declined due to various reasons, including diseases such as smallpox and measles, intermarriage, and violence. In the early days of colonization many settlers were subject to shortages of food, disease and attacks from Native Americans. Native Americans were also often at war with neighboring tribes and allied with Europeans in their colonial wars. At the same time however many natives and settlers came to depend on each other. Settlers traded for food and animal pelts, natives for guns, ammunition and other European wares. Natives taught many settlers where, when and how to cultivate corn, beans and squash in the frontier. European missionaries and others felt it was important to "civilize" the Indians and urged them to concentrate on farming and ranching without depending on hunting and gathering

European Settlement in New England (1600 - 1769)

In 1620, 102 settlers set out from Holland to come to the New World on the Mayflower. They soon arrived in Plymouth, and formed a colony. In 1630, Puritans who disapproved of Plymouth, moved up the coast, and formed the city of Boston. In 1636, Roger Williams founded the town of Providence, in the name of tolerance. By 1650, most of the northeast coastline of current day New England was colonized. Template:Image frame In 1692, in the village of Salem, a fierce witch trials, leading to the arrest of scores of people, and the deaths of twenty.

During the first half of the 18th-century, New England, along with the other colonies in the Americas, various wars against the French and Natives. After these wars, the United Kingdom was in deep debt. To compensate, the Parliament implemented taxes on the Americas. This made the colonists distrustful of the British government.

American Revolution (1770 - 1780)

Main article: American Revolution

New England played a large part in the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783).

Most historians note the beginning of hostilities to take place in the snowy streets of Boston, on March 5, 1770. Several soldiers were guarding the custom house in town, and colonists were protesting the Intolerable Acts, when a group of several British Regulars fired upon the protestors. The shooting killed five civilians, and injured six. Soon afterword, the soldiers who performed the massacre were arrested, and charged with manslaughter. John Adams defended them in court.

In December, 1773, the Sons of Liberty conducted a "tea party" in Boston harbor, dumping scores of thousands of pounds worth of tea into the harbor. On April 18, 1775, the first shots of the war were fired in the town of Lexington, a few miles outside of Boston. Soon afterword, widespread conflict came, and the Siege of Boston began. After ten months, the British surrendered the city, and thus began the victories of the Americans.

In 1781, the British Lord Cornwallis surrendered the largest British Army in the Americas. In 1781, a congress was held in Boston, as there was major dissent over the Articles of Confederation in the northeast. Five states, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, sent delegates to Providence to discuss seperating from the rest of the colonies. The thirty-two delegates unanimously voted "yes" on independence from the confederation, and formed a new one, the Confederacy of New England.

First War for Independence (1781 - 1789)

Building a Nation (1790 - 1797)

Antebellum (1798 - 1858)

New England Civil War (1859 - 1867)

Reconstruction (1868 - 1918)

Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression (1919 - 1939)

Second World War (1940 - 1945)

Cold War (1946 - 1991)

Into the Modern Age (1991 - the Present)