months and years‚ Hancock became increasingly involved in the movement for American independence. Massachusetts was at the center of this movement‚ and Boston‚ in particular‚ was dubbed the “Cradle of Liberty.” In 1774‚ John Hancock was elected president of the Massachusetts Provincial Congress‚ which declared itself an autonomous government. In December of 1774‚ Hancock was chosen as a Massachusetts delegate to the Second Continental Congress which served as the governing body of the U.S. during
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Frost was very different from the narrators he created. Long associated with New England and farming‚ Frost was actually born in California in 1874‚ where he lived until his father‚ a journalist‚ died when he was 11. His mother brought him to Massachusetts‚ where he graduated as co-valedictorian of his high school class. He attended Dartmouth and Harvard but didn’t complete a degree at either school. Three years after high school‚ he married his fellow high school valedictorian‚ Elinor White.
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Each region had its own type of houses‚ crops‚ churches‚ and values but the things keeping them together was their political ties to mother England and the English origins of the majority of the people. The area that contained the colonies Massachusetts‚ Connecticut‚ Rhode Island‚ and New Hampshire‚ New England‚ had created its own sort of social distinctiveness. The English Puritans‚ who left England in search of religious freedom and economic success‚ settled this region in 1620 when they
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and Concord were the first military engagement of the American Revolutionary War. They were fought on April 19‚ 1775‚ in Middlesex county‚ province of Massachusetts Bay. The British Army’s lieutenant colonel Francis Smith ordered about 700 British army regulars to capture and destroy military supplies that were reportedly stored by the Massachusetts militia at Concord. Dr. joseph Warren alerted the colonist of what the British were going to try to do and so the Patriots had enough time to move most
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“...having been reared by a kind aunt in Pennsylvania‚ whose usefulness with the sick was continually sought‚ I early conceived a liking for‚ and sought every opportunity to relieve the sufferings of others." In 1852 she moved to Charlestown‚ Massachusetts‚ where she worked as a nurse for the next eight years. The first formal school for nursing only opened in 1873‚ therefore she was able to work as a nurse without any formal training. Whilst working as a nurse‚ many of the doctors she assisted
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different motives and on different principles‚ they held many similarities. in addition to their contrasts. Jamestown‚ Virginia‚ was founded in 1607 by a group of men and young boys as a commercial project while the settlements of Plymouth and Massachusetts were to be refuges for persecuted Separatists and Puritans. The goals‚ environments‚ and backgrounds of the people who settled these areas affected ? the success and failures of their New World. Some compare with others‚ while others differ from
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This correspondence of over 1000 letters remains in the Massachusetts Historical Society. Those letters‚ “Remember the Ladies” letter included‚ are historical documents; they are eyewitnesses to all the matters and events of that time since they wrote each other about the political issues of the day. Moreover‚ due to these letters Abigail’s life is one of the most documented of the first
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France New Netherlands New Spain Non-importation Agreements Pequot War Plymouth colony Plymouth Settlement Powhatan Confederacy Predestination Proclamation of 1763 Protestant Reformation Quaker Invasion of Massachusetts Quebec Act of 1774 Rice colonies Roanoke Smith‚ Captain John Spectral Evidence Stamp Act Tea Act Tituba Townshend Duties Triangle Trade War of Jenkin’s Ear II. ESSAY: Two of the following essays will
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before‚ and we are repeating the history. It is important for people to remember so they do not make any more mistakes‚or make up any silly stories that will affect society The anti-communist rage in the McCarthy era and the Salem witch trial in Massachusetts destroyed people’s lives; the mass hysteria that swept the United States.
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