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5 dni temu · Massachusetts - Politics, Economy, Society: The Pilgrims established a government of sorts under the Mayflower Compact of 1620, which enshrined the notion of the consent of the governed.
15 paź 2024 · Massachusetts Bay Colony, one of the original English settlements in present-day Massachusetts, settled in 1630 by a group of about 1,000 Puritan refugees from England under Gov. John Winthrop and Deputy Gov. Thomas Dudley.
The economy of rural Massachusetts suffered an economic depression after the war ended. Merchants, pressured for hard currency by overseas partners, made similar demands on local debtors, and the state raised taxes in order to pay off its own war debts.
Although the Massachusetts economy of this era was one of the most impressive in the British empire, it was precariously based. Lacking rich soils or other valuable resources save lumber, the colony, to a degree unmatched by any other colony, depended upon maritime activities for her economic well-being.
5 dni temu · By the early 21st century, Massachusetts’s economy was prospering because of the close relationship between the computer and the communications industries, as well as the many educational institutions of the metropolitan Boston area.
28 gru 2016 · Massachusetts Economy: Before the industrial revolution, Massachusetts’ economy was based primarily on agriculture, fishing and maritime shipping. After the industrial revolution began in England in the late 18th century, American manufacturers were determined to improve American manufacturing.
These questions lie at the heart of James McWilliams’s brief and engaging study of the early Massachusetts economy. McWilliams argues that by focusing their narratives on external trade as the engine of economic growth and on a rising merchant class as the key actors in the process, historians have underestimated the significance of internal ...
