Northern United States

This video was taken by the crew of Expedition 29 on board the ISS on a pass over the Northern United States at night.

The Northern United States, commonly referred to as the American North or simply the North, can be a geographic and/or historical term and definition.

Geographic term

Geographically, the term includes the U.S. states and regions of the United States of America that are located across the northernmost part of the country. It includes, but is not limited to, states along the Canada–United States border.

Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau divides some of the northernmost United States into the Midwest Region and the Northeast Region.^[1] The Census Bureau also includes the northernmost states of the Northwestern United States, that are, within the West Region.^[1]

Historical term

Before 19th century westward expansion, the "Northern United States" corresponded to the present day New England region. By the 1830s it corresponded to the present day Northeastern United States

American Civil War

During the American Civil War, the Northern United States was composed of the U.S. states that remained in the United States of America, the Union states. In this context, "The North" is synonymous with the Union. In this context, "The South" is composed of the states that seceded from the U.S. to form the Confederate States of America. However, which states comprised "The North" in this context can be the subject of historical disagreement. Some slave-holding states that remained in the Union may be excluded.^[2]

References

1 2 "Census Regions and Divisions of the United States" (PDF). United States Census Bureau. Retrieved 2009-10-27.
↑ "the North (region, United States)". Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 2009. Retrieved 2009-10-27.

Regions of the United States

Administrative
(political)

Units	U.S. state District of Columbia Insular area Minor Outlying Island Maritime territory

Time zones	Hawaii–Aleutian Alaska Pacific Mountain Central Eastern

Census	West Pacific Mountain Midwest E N Central W N Central Northeast New England Middle Atlantic South S Atlantic E S Central W S Central

Courts of appeals	1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th

Physical

Physiographic	Pacific Mountain Intermontane Plateaus Rocky Mountain Superior Upland Interior Plains Interior Highlands Appalachian Atlantic Plain

Coastal	Arctic West Great Lakes Gulf East

Historical

Cessions and accessions	Thirteen Colonies Louisiana Purchase Gadsden Purchase Texas annexation Oregon Treaty Mexican Cession Alaska Purchase Newlands Resolution

Civil War	Union Border states Confederacy Old South Dixie Slave and free states Theaters Pacific Western Trans-Mississippi Lower Seaboard Eastern

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