Massachusetts

her religion during the 17th century was the Quaker Mary Dyer or Mary Barrett as maiden name. Originally from England, her exact day of birth is considered unknown for the most part, but she was reportedly born in 1611. She immigrated to Boston, Massachusetts in 1635 with her husband William Dyer then live in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1638. She later returned to England, where she lived for seven years.…

were created to discipline the Massachusetts colony after the Boston Tea Party. These acts mainly affected Boston, and were used to show the rest of the colonies what would happen if anyone else tried to rebel like Boston. To the colonists these act were also known as the intolerable acts. The first Coercive Act was the Massachusetts Government Act that shut down the local governments and only allowed one meeting a year for local government in all of Massachusetts, not just Boston, and revoked…

act had five acts. There was the Quartering Act where the king forced colonists to take British troops to their home. The Boston Port Act was where the king shut down the port of Boston to cut the trade until the cost of tea was paid back. The Massachusetts Government Act was established…

Elbridge Gerry was born on July 17, 1744 in Marblehead Massachusetts and had eleven other siblings. His family was rich and had their own business. His father was a Merchant-shipper after retiring from being a sea captain. After graduating from Harvard to become a merchant himself, Elbridge started working with his father and his two brothers in their family business. This business sent dried codfish to Spain. This job was just the beginning of an extraordinary man's journey into politics.…

Pilgrims were the first group to make to move in Massachusetts. The puritans were a group in England that criticized the Anglican church. The Anglican church is the another name of the church of England. And they got the name Puritan because to purify the church and get rid of things that they felt unnecessary. They also believed that each person could read and interpret the Bible himself. The pilgrims were a small group inside the larger group of puritans. So they were a small part of the…

physical geography of Massachusetts and support within the state to ratify the Constitution is that in Massachusetts the delegates supported the the ratification of the constitution. The map shows that there is a evenly division of states where somes states support ratification others oppose. The Proclamation Line of 1763 separated the states which forbade all settlement past the line along the Appalachian Mountains. Also, the Province of Massachusetts Bay was formed in 1691. Massachusetts is…

Thirteen original colonies that colonized in North America set the standards for what is to be expected of North America. Of the thirteen colonies that settled in America, each one was founded for its own purpose; New Jersey for farming and trade, Rhode Island for separation of church and state, and Virginia for its quest of gold. Virginia became the first successful colony to colonize in America, founded by John Smith in 1607. On the quest for riches and gold, colonists spent most of their time…

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…

New England. This charter allowed them to build a village called Salem located on Massachusetts Bay. In 1630, John WInthrop led another lot of Puritans to settle The Massachusetts Bay Colony. John Winthrop’s group built their city as Winthrop said, upon a hill located south of Salem. They chose the name Boston for this new settlement. The same year, 1630, Winthrop was elected to be the governor of his Massachusetts Colony. He and his Puritan Colleagues were strict to help ensure a perfect…

Lexington and Concord battle there was 700 British and 77 Militiamen. It took place in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge, near Boston. It all started because tTensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts. The battle of Lexington and Concord impacted the American Revolution by starting the war.…