Braintree, Massachusetts

emergency act to keep “America American”, also known as the National Origins Act of 1924 . The act was undebatably discriminatory; it restricted the immigration of Southern and Eastern Europeans and completely excluded Asians and other nonwhites from entering the United States. Immigration quotas wre also being held during this period, and restricted the number of visas available each year to immigrants. Additionally, the government wanted to prevent foreigners from entering the country, as they were associated with communism and anarchism. With the establishment of this law, intolerance and prejudice were gradually being institutionalized in American society. It began on April 15, 1920, when a shoe factory paymaster from South Braintree, Massachusetts, and his guard were brutally shot at the time of delivering a payroll of more than $15,000. The assailants took the sum as they fled the scene in a car. There were over fifty witnesses when it occurred, and among the list of suspects was a professional gang. Nonetheless, two of the witnesses had agreed that the two men in the car were Italians and authorities quickly turned to two anarchists who fit the description perfectly. Niccola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested as they went to pick up a car at an auto repair shop . Shortly after, on May 31, 1921, both men had been…

In 1921, two Italian immigrants, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, allegedly murdered a payroll guard and a paymaster during a payroll heist in Braintree, MA. Sacco, a thirty two year old shoemaker, and Vanzetti, a twenty nine year old fish peddler, both with immigrant backgrounds. The accusation of these two men seemed rather racist on the court's behalf due to the lack of evidence. People believed the men received unfair bias from the court due to where Sacco and Vanzetti came from.…

John Adams was born, October 30, 1735 in Braintree, Massachusetts and also had two siblings, Peter Adams and Elihu Adams. John Adams grew up in a religious home with his father serving as a church deacon. He attended a private school in Braintree and he would eventually graduate from Harvard, at age 20, and receive a B.A. (Bachelor of Arts) and M.A. (Master of Arts). He married Abigail Smith on October 25, 1764 in Weymouth, Massachusetts. John Adams had been married to her for 54 years and…

John Quincy Adams was born on July 11, 1767 in Braintree, Massachusetts to John and Abigail Adams. John Q Adams grew up in family of farmers but his family was also full of success. His great grandfather was a represented Braintree colonial for over forty year and a speaker of the house while his dad graduated from Harvard as a lawyer and soon after became president of the United States. As it started in 1763 Adams still had to deal with the rebellion with the American colonists against the…

Abigail Smith Adams was born to William Smith and Elizabeth Quincy in Weymouth, Massachusetts on November 11, 1744. Her Father was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts on January 29th, 1706. He was a Congregational minister before he died in 1783. Her mother was born in Braintree, Massachusetts in 1721 and married in 1740 before she died in 1775. Abigail was known as “Mrs. President” due to the amount of influence and strength she portrayed as first lady of the United States. In her childhood,…

John Quincy Adams was born on July 11, 1767, in Braintree, Massachusetts, on a family farm. As the eldest son, his father and mother taught him mathematics and languages. Around the age of ten, in 1778, John Quincy traveled to many European countries such as Paris, The Netherlands, and England. He received proper schooling, at Passy Academy, where he studied dance, music, artistry, and fencing. A few years afterward, he received training in the diplomatic corps; and in 1781, he accompanied…

The justices would now have to “surrender their independence to corrupt paymasters across the sea.” To answer to the word received for the newly formed Boston Committee of Correspondence, Concord formed its own committee. The committee composed a assertion of colonial rights and was unanimously endorsed by Concord. With this, the people of Concord were becoming more involved in politics outside of their town and were slowly becoming revolutionaries. After the passage of the Boston Port act in…

institution of slavery would resolve itself given time, it can be argued that John Quincy feared that the practice, which undermined the very ideals that the country was found upon, would tear the union apart. The article will also serve to compare and contrast father and son, and show how the politics of slavery had changed over the course of a generation. John Adams was born in 1735 the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was educated at Harvard as a lawyer when he early on became associated with…

Squanto’s Guidance of the Pilgrims 1. Demonstrating his crucial role in the lasting success of an English colony in Massachusetts, Squanto further assisted the Pilgrims by leading Myles Standish to fertile farming ground in what is present-day Quincy. 2. After English colonists established posts in Squantum and Wollaston, these neighborhoods evolved and grew to become the neighborhoods that one can easily observe today. 3. While the very existence of a thriving community in Quincy can be…

The American Revolution affected multiple groups of people who were living in the country during this period of time. All of these groups had different perspectives on how the American Revolution was going to affect them both during and after the revolution. The three different perspectives I am going to talk about in this essay are Whigs, Tories, and Indians. Each of these groups has a completely different view on how the American Revolution will change their world, depending on which side they…