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5 dni temu · Although the new program was fraught with difficulty, it was an improvement over the system that existed in the mid-19th century, when citizens were still imprisoned for debt. State programs now stress training and educating welfare recipients to help them to become self-sufficient.
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.
1 dzień temu · Economic hardship and a desire to establish an identity free of Dutch influence prompted them to seek out America. The Pilgrims were never granted a royal charter; their government was based on the Mayflower Compact, a document signed by 41 male passengers on the Mayflower five weeks before their arrival in the New World. The compact was hardly ...
Building the Bay Colony: Local Economy and Culture in Early Massachusetts. By James E. McWilliams. (Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2007) Why did New England, the only English colonial region lacking a staple crop, not only survive but prosper in the seventeenth century?
Economy: Massachusetts, 1750-1855 WINIFRED B. ROTHENBERG This article proposes to do three things: to test for and date the emergence and integration of regional farm labor markets in Massachusetts; to demonstrate their growth consequences for the preindustrial economy; and to present new wage and
