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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.
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.
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.
1 dzień temu · Repeated expeditions against the Native Americans were common in the 18th century, as Massachusetts men joined with British troops to fight the French and their Indian allies. Commercial and industrial expansion marked 18th-century Massachusetts and resulted in the rapid settlement of new communities, many spurred by speculation. Between 1692 ...
Figure 3 shows Boston’s population relative to the population of Massachusetts as a whole and relative to the city of New York. Boston’s population relative to Massachusetts rises during every decade from 1790 and 1880 and declines during every subsequent decade.
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 ...
18 sty 2021 · Massachusetts Bay Colony (1628-1691 CE) was the largest English settlement in New England and the most influential both in the colonization of the region and later developments in what would become the United States of America.
