Search results
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.
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.
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.
21 mar 2024 · In this article, I trace the patterns of sugar product consumption in seventeenth-century New England, from port to countryside, and I explore the way in which economic exchange between New England and Barbados lay at the core of the development of both regions.
1 dzień temu · Commercial and industrial expansion marked 18th-century Massachusetts and resulted in the rapid settlement of new communities, many spurred by speculation. Between 1692 and 1765, 111 new towns and districts were incorporated, while the population increased to 222,563.
29 maj 2017 · Revolutionary Economic Policy in Massachusetts* Oscar and Mary F. Handlin' HE revolution was America's time of troubles. A period which raised the most fundamental questions as to the nature of the state stripped away the conventional patterns which cloaked the exercise of political power. The luminous obj ectives of the struggle
