Massachusetts, one of the thirteen original United States of America. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts covers part of the territory originally granted to the P...
All other churches aforesaid are hereby denied the use of other missals, which are to be wholly and entirely rejected; and by this present Constitution, which shall have the force of law in perpetuity. We order and enjoin under pain of Our displeasure that nothing be added to Our newly ...
In the trial of Anne Hutchinson, we meet a well intentioned yet lost people described and labelled as the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Company. These self governing Puritans, once a people who sought God to set them on their way, settled only to be found as a people who simply lost...
It was to extend to the west in longitude with the line of the Massachusetts Colony to the South Sea “on the west part with the islands there adjoining”. In 1786 Connecticut ceded to the United States all its public land, reserving, however, about three and a half million acres in ...
Proposed byAlan Guthof the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981, inflationsays that in the few slivers of a second after the big bang, the universe doubled in size thousands of times before settling into the calmer expansion we see today. This helped to explain why parts of the ...
Columbusstarted sailingfromSpainwith87sailorsinthree ships. •OnOct.12,1492,Columbuslandedon America. LandingonMassachusetts •In1620,agroupofPuritanscameto America.OnSep.16,theysetofffrom Plymouth,Englandonashipcalledthe Mayflower.Beforetheysetfootonthenew land,theysignedtheMayflowerCompact, inwhich...
Rhode Island heartily joined the other colonies in making the Revolution her cause. In 1768 the Assembly ratified the Massachusetts remonstrance against the British principle of taxation, in spite of Lord Hillsborough’s advice to treat it with “the contempt it deserves”. The first overt act of...
Martiniquein theCaribbean,French GuianainSouth America, and colonialMarylandandLouisianain theUnited States. Jesuit missions contributed to the spread of deadly European diseases among Indigenous populations and relied on the labor of enslaved Indigenous and African people. Many Jesuit missions, churches, ...