HSB-41 Home - Entire Timeline
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| Years | Image | Event | Description | Keywords |
| 1790 | New England has a million people | population | ||
| 1800 | With 1,400,000 people N.E. contains 28 percent of the U.S. population | |||
| 1800 | Population in Connecticut stagnates while Maine explodes | population distribution | ||
| 1850 | At 2,729,000, N.E. composes less than 12 percent of the U.S. population | |||
| 1850 | 45 out of 100 New Englanders live in Maine, NH, or Vermont | population distribution | ||
| 1870 | Most female wage workers are employed in factories or as household servants. | In Boston, 8 of 10 household servants are foreign born. In textile mills, most are immigrants or the children of immigrants. | women's work, population, immigration | |
| 1894 | Immigration Restriction League Founded at Harvard | labor, population | ||
| 1900 | New England's 5.5 million people make up 7 percent of the U.S. population | |||
| 1900 | 75 of 100 New Englanders live in Mass, Conn, or RI | population distribution | ||
| 1924 | Congress passes restrictive immigration laws | population | ||
| 1925 | Vermont launches a Eugenics Survey | population, immigration | ||
| 1950 | New England has over 9 million people, 6 percent of the nation's population | population | ||
| 2000 | N. E.'s 12 million people compose less than 5 percent of the U.S. population | population |