History of Massachusetts

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Witchcraft took place in many places around the world, including Salem, Massachusetts, England, and Scotland. Most people that were accused of being witches rejected Jesus and holy sacraments. Also, they were said to have made pacts with evil spirits. Although Witchcraft occurred in some places earlier than others, it had the same concept everywhere. One of the many places where witchcraft was popular was in Salem, Massachusetts. Witchcraft accusations started when people started…

other books about early American history, The Minutemen and Their World, by Robert A. Gross, does not focus on the founding fathers or “textbook-quality” events that are known today to have paved the way to the American Revolution. Instead, the theme is focused on the everyday life of the people living in and around Concord, Massachusetts; a colonial city outside of Boston with a vast amount of problems and troubles. The Minutemen and Their World provides a social history, which is key to…

number of years however Elias Howe is ultimately considered the inventor of the sewing machine. Elias Howe was born on July 9, 1819 in Spencer, Massachusetts. Howe spent his childhood and early adult years in Massachusetts where he apprenticed in a textile factory beginning in 1835. After mill closings due to the Panic of 1837 he moved to Cambridge,Massachusetts. Beginning in 1838 he apprenticed in the shop of a master mechanic in Cambridge by the name of Ari Davis who specialized in the…

ideas and the evolution of early evidence presented in court, with an emphasis on the Salem Witch Trials. Secondary Sources Latner, Richard B. "The Long and Short of Salem Witchcraft: Chronology and Collective Violence in 1692." Journal of Social History 42, no. 1 (2008): 137-156. http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=0&sid=2d94ea2f-15f0-49db-98c8-085aaafbe5e8%40sessionmgr4007. Latner provides a general overview of the Salem Witch Trials. The author touches on specific…

Jamestown was for economic gain. Furthermore, investors had hoped it would be there way to get rich quick and easy, though it turned out as anything but. Maryland was founded as a Catholic haven in a time in which there was religious conflict. The history of Maryland could contribute to the idea that…

Fall River, Massachusetts is a city just about an hour south of Boston College. I have lived there my entire life. I moved once, but it was only to the other side of the city. Having accumulated, then, twenty years of experiential knowledge living in Fall River, I thought I knew more about the city than – it turns out – I do. The way that I know Fall River, and the way that I portray my home town to others, is as a large, diverse, economically-challenged, dead end city. This does not paint the…

tutored in many languages such as Greek, Latin, French, Hebrew, and English. She was also tutored in history and literature. When Anne was sixteen, she married twenty-five-year-old Simon Bradstreet. Two years after their marriage in 1630, Anne, her husband, and her parents sailed aboard the Arbella with the Winthrop Puritan group to the new world. On June 14, 1630 the group landed in Salem, Massachusetts but…

different events in history to draw in his audience and connect with them on an emotional level. For example when Kennedy states, “John Winthrop set before his shipmates on the flagship Arbela 331 years ago” it shows Kennedy’s knowledge of Massachusetts. The Arbela was a ship that arrived in Massachusetts and when it came to this land the first inhabitants would do their best in creating a very functional and excelling city. Kennedy uses this allusion to express, with his mainly Massachusetts…

as such from the secular world. The inability to determine one’s spiritual status empirically; the “invisibility” of the elect; largely cultivated the self-deprecating, anxiety-ridden nature of Puritan discourse in New England. The leaders of Massachusetts…