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Middle Atlantic   /mˈɪdəl ətlˈæntɪk/   Listen
Middle Atlantic

adjective
1.
Of a region of the United States generally including Delaware; Maryland; Virginia; and usually New York; Pennsylvania; New Jersey.  Synonym: mid-Atlantic.





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"Middle atlantic" Quotes from Famous Books



... of its products rising to nearly $2,000,000,000 in 1859. The tendency toward a territorial division of industry was accentuated during this period. Cotton cultivation became more than ever the dominant industry of the entire South; most of the manufacturing was done in the New England and Middle Atlantic States; the Northern Central States were devoted primarily to the production ...
— Outline of the development of the internal commerce of the United States - 1789-1900 • T.W. van Mettre
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... business argued that the treaty must be bad because it was Wilson's work and the covenant worst of all, since it was his pet scheme. One heard daily in the clubs and on the golf-courses of New England and the Middle Atlantic States the remark: "I know little about the treaty, but I know Wilson, and I know he must ...
— Woodrow Wilson and the World War - A Chronicle of Our Own Times. • Charles Seymour
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... In the Middle Atlantic States, the number of plants and the spindlage have remained about stationary over a long period of years, and are even showing a tendency to decrease. Small weaving establishments which buy their yarn are particularly numerous around Philadelphia, ...
— The Fabric of Civilization - A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States • Anonymous
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... New York and other middle Atlantic States discovered that it was impossible under the impotent Articles of Confederation to regulate commerce in waters bordered by two or more States. Even when New York and New Jersey could agree, ...
— A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 • DeAlva Stanwood Alexander
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