Do You Live in the Northeastern United States?

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Do You Live in the Northeastern United States? Most Americans are aware that Native American tribes lived in the Northeastern part of what would later become the United States, hundreds, in fact, probably thousands of years before the white settlers showed up. But, I want to review what we call “modern” America. The Northeast was where the modern history of the United States began when European and other immigrants came to this new land. It has been long thought that the Vikings probably were the first to come, around 1000 A.D., but no settlers followed. Even Christopher Columbus, who “sailed the ocean blue in 1492” never set foot on North American soil. He ended up in the Caribbean Islands. Why he is honored as the discoverer of America is beyond my comprehension. Then, the Dutch came and colonized New Amsterdam (New York) in the 1600s. But, it was the Pilgrim Fathers who started the wave of English immigration TO THIS AREA, that would determine its future character. They landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620. The Northeast was also where America’s independence from British rule began, when in 1773, in Boston, Massachusetts, angry citizens dumped boxes of tea in the harbor to protest British taxation. This became known as the Boston Tea Party. Also, in 1775, in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, the first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired. And on July 4th, 1776, most history books claim that, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Declaration of Independence was signed, as the Liberty Bell rang. So, this area, the Northeast, played a vital role in shaping the history of the United States of America. Do you live in the Northeast, otherwise known as the New England States, of the U.S.?