Editing Yankee (section)

===Yankee settlement in the United States===
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The original Yankees diffused widely across the northern United States, leaving their imprints in New York, the [[Upper Midwest]], many taking advantage of water routes by the [[Great Lakes]], and places as far away as [[Seattle]], [[San Francisco]], and [[Honolulu]].<ref>Mathews (1909), Holbrook (1950)</ref>

<blockquote>Yankeeism is the general character of the Union. Yankee manners are as migratory as Yankee men. The latter are found everywhere and the former prevail wherever the latter are found. Although the genuine Yankee belongs to New England, the term "Yankee" is now as appropriate to the natives of the Union at large.<ref name="thomascolleygrattan">{{cite book |title=Civilized America ... Second edition, Volume 1|author=Thomas Colley Grattan|publisher=Bradbury&Evans|year=1859|pages=7}}</ref>
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Yankees settled other states in various ways: some joined highly organized colonization companies, others purchased groups of land together; some joined volunteer land settlement groups, and self-reliant individual families also migrated.<ref name="thomascolleygrattan" /> Yankees typically lived in villages consisting of clusters of separate farms.  Often they were merchants, bankers, teachers, or professionals.<ref>{{cite book|author=Kenneth J. Winkle|title=The Young Eagle: The Rise of Abraham Lincoln|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JcEVAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA78|year=2001|publisher=Taylor |page=78|isbn=9781461734369}}</ref><ref name="susanegray">{{cite book |title= The Yankee West: Community Life on the Michigan Frontier|author=Susan E. Gray|publisher=Univ of North Carolina Press|year=1996|pages=11}}</ref>

Village life fostered local democracy, best exemplified by the open [[town meeting]] form of government that still exists today in New England. Village life also stimulated mutual oversight of moral behavior and emphasized civic virtue. The Yankees built international trade routes stretching to China by 1800 from the New England seaports of [[Boston]], [[Salem, Massachusetts|Salem]], [[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence]], [[Newport, Rhode Island|Newport]], and [[New London, Connecticut|New London]], among others. Much of the profit from trading was reinvested in the textile and machine tools industries.<ref>Knights (1991)</ref>