Province of Massachusetts Bay

The North American French, Spanish, and British settlements differed both in objectives and religiously, yet held similar economical achievements. The North American French settlements stretched from the north of present day Canada down to the state of Louisiana. The goals of the French explorers were to obtain wealth by finding a route linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans that would promote trade and finding good along the Great Lakes. King Francis I sent Jacques Cartier to accomplish…

banished from Massachusetts. Winthrop’s speech was a means of explaining the law at that time. He declared that natural liberty is dangerous for the community because it implies that those with natural liberty are looking out for their own good and not the good of the community. In order to be a good society, everyone must look out…

in both states adopted for such a climate. In Maine people adapted to poor soil and government found a way to provide jobs for the citizens. Manufacturing and fishing industry are the main source of money. Original name of North Carolina was the Province of North Carolina (Alchin). Carolina colony was one of 13 original colonies found by Virginia colonist, but then was divided into three colonies (Alchin). Around 25,000 years ago, during the Ice Age, the New England was covered with ice, now…

Maine was a district of the state of Massachusetts until it became the 23rd state on March 15th, 1820 as part of the Missouri compromise (Hartford, 2006). Maine got its name because it was distinguished as the Mainland from islands offshore (History.com Staff, 2009). It is also known as the Pine Tree State. Maine is the only state whose name is a single syllable and is abbreviated as ME on maps. The state borders New Hampshire, the Atlantic Ocean, and some provinces of Canada. Maine’s original…

amazingly useful to the Puritans and needed to dodge any superfluous clash. The Puritans set up a tight sew group construct to a great extent in light of their religious convictions which additionally ran as an inseparable unit with the goals of the Massachusetts Bay…

aforementioned conventional beliefs that a woman’s say is not worth that of a male prove to prevail when Winthrop rules Hutchinson should be banished. This mentality highlights the overall idea that freedom and tolerance in the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies was subjective and at the discretion of the higher authorities. Freedom was only truly observed by those who shared the same beliefs as the Puritans as a whole, and tolerance was not observed when an individual strayed from those…

occurred. Most of the freed men and women were impoverished and bitter, their lives and reputations tarnished. The church was in disarray, having no money and filled with angry, depressed citizens (Schanzer 107-108, 117). In January 1697, the Massachusetts General Court declared a day of fasting for the tragedy of the Salem Witch Trials…

Delaware lies on a small niche of the Eastern American border. Henry Hudson is credited with the discovery of Massachusetts in 1609. Henry Hudson was working for the Dutch East India Company and he discovered the Delaware Bay and River, which allowed easily accessible routes for trade. This made Delaware a desirable stop for traders and merchants. The natives to the state were the Lenape, Algonquian and the Powhatan Indians. The first natives were of the Paleo-Indian culture that lived in caves…

My grandfather served in the United States Navy in World War II where our ships encountered what was to them a new style of fighter: the Kamikaze pilot. The Kamikaze pilot was an individual who would quite literally drive a Mitsubishi Zero plane that was unequipped with guns and flew their planes directly into American ships to keep them away from reaching Japan. The word Kamikaze has an ancient origin. Literally translated it means “divine wind.” Kamikaze was used for close to a thousand years…

Arthur Asher Miller was a prolific American essayist, playwright and a prominent figure in 20th century American theatre. Miller was born on October 17th, 1915, and died on 10th February, 2005. Due to his excellent work in writing, he received many awards throughout his career. His works involved writing stage, radio, and screen plays, assorted fiction, nonfiction and numerous collections. Throughout his career, he wrote different forms of literature that were based on different historical…