named William Blackstone was the first settler to inhabit Rhode Island in 1635. He originally settled in Massachusetts but relocated because it became too crowded for him. Puritan leaders in Massachusetts forced all to leave who did not practice their faith. Roger Williams‚ a minister who believed in religious freedom left in 1636. He was not alone‚ along with Ann Hutchinson; they fled Massachusetts with a group of Puritans. Williams and Hutchinson was given credit as being the leader of these people
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description: The political and religious havoc in England in the 1620s led to the Great Migration. Governor John Winthrop led as many as 900 or 1000 Puritans over to Massachusetts Bay to practice Christianity in 1630. On the 17th of September‚ the city of Boston was founded. The existing New England Company was then changed to the Massachusetts Bay Company. However‚ right after moving to America‚ nearly 200 died the first year and almost the same amount returned to England the year afterwards. In the next
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Maybe we don’t brag enough. We live in an incredibly innovative place: Massachusetts is a magnet for people who want to solve challenging problems‚ build substantial businesses‚ and conduct research at the edge of what’s known. But while other businesspeople boast about the wonderful weather and great golf in Tempe‚ Ariz.‚ or the stock options they got from a friend’s Silicon Valley start-up‚ sure to be worth millions‚ we never know quite what to say. Instead‚ we’re prone to jealousy‚ looking
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The rebellion was led by a man named Daniel Shay and lasted over six months. The goal of the rebellion was to prevent the trial and imprisonment of the debt-ridden farmers. After a few protests following the tax collections‚ the governor of Massachusetts‚ named James Bowdoin‚ called the militia to report the peoples’ unwillingness to pay and follow the law. The critical point of the rebellion was Shays’ march on the government arsenal at Springfield in January 1787. The only means of standing off
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primarily the Wampanoag Indian tribe. There were massive casualties on each side‚ all of which were caused by fighting and disease. King Philip ’s War‚ had began out of almost forty years of tension between local native tribes of Massachusetts and puritan colonists of Massachusetts. Each side felt as if they had no choice but to remove the other or certain annihilation of their people would inevitably happen. Political leaders on both the Indian and Colonist side reinforce this stance of “It ’s them‚ or
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Delaware‚ Georgia‚ Maryland‚ Massachusetts‚ New Hampshire‚ New Jersey‚ New York‚ North Carolina‚ South Carolina‚ Pennsylvania‚ Rhode Island and Virginia. The New England colonies were Rhode Island‚Connecticut‚Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Rhode Island was the 1st to declare independence from England but last of thirteen to become a state because of concerns over being fairly represented in spite of size.Connecticut was settled by Puritans from Massachusetts; state laws were model for US Constitution
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was involved with all of the colonies‚ Massachusetts‚ New Haven‚ Maryland‚ and Pennsylvania were established exclusively for religious purposes. The people in the Carolinas made a large profit off of sugar from Barbados‚ which attracted many settlers from all different cultures and increased the population. Migration and immigration between other colonies and the Carolinas was common because of the economic success of sugar. Puritans from Massachusetts and Catholics from Maryland came to share
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who didn’t want to pray to the church of England‚ so in 1628‚ a group of Puritans came to Massachusetts for freedom of religion. Everyone that lived in Massachusetts had to pray in Puritan churches‚ and they didn’t want their people to have freedom of religion either. Roger Williams lived with the Puritans. He told them that everyone should have the right to choose their religion‚ and then he left Massachusetts and traveled through the forests‚ and met Native Americans who helped him‚ and sold him
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New England/ America and the Mid- Atlantic New England is a region in the northeastern corner of the United States consisting of six states: Massachusetts‚ Maine‚ New Hampshire‚ Vermont‚ Rhode Island‚ and Connecticut. New England is bordered by New York State to the west‚ Long Island to the south‚ the Atlantic Ocean and the Canadian province of New Brunswick to the east‚ and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north. The earliest known inhabitants of New England were American Indians who spoke
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either named after people‚ Indian names or‚ places in England. The original states/colonies are‚ Massachusetts‚ Rhode Island‚ Connecticut‚ New York‚ Georgia‚ North Carolina‚ Maryland‚ South Carolina‚ Delaware‚ Pennsylvania‚ Virginia‚ New Hampshire and New Jersey. The three states that are named specifically after Indian names are Massachusetts‚ Rhode Island and Connecticut. The Puritans named Massachusetts‚ after a local Indian tribe whose name means "a large hill place." Rhode Island was named after
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