根据第五段 “In 1647, settlers in Massachusetts were worried that their children wouldn't be able to read the religious texts. So they created a remarkable law: Neighborhoods of more than 50 families hire a teacher and the teacher be paid by the people living in each neighborhood.(1647年,...
Education in the American colonies began as a religious endeavor. In the seventeenth century, New England’s Puritan settlers stressed that everyone learn how to read the Bible. Puritan leaders began enforcing this through theMassachusetts Bay School Law of 1642. This directive removed education respo...
In 1629, the Massachusetts Company obtained a charter from the king, being incorporated by the name of The Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay in New England. Mr. Endicott, being in the country, was appointed the first governor. In June, two hundred additional settlers arrived, bringing ...
Among those accused of witchcraft in Boston was Ann Hibbins, sister-in-law to Massachusetts Gov. Richard Bellingham, who was executed in 1656. A character based on Hibbins would later appear in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," published in 1850. Another accused Boston witch, known a...
) the celebration of the Eucharist. 3. a musical setting of the mass. [before 900; Old English mæsse < Vulgar Latin *messa, Late Latin missa, formally feminine of Latin missus, past participle of mittere to send] Mass. Massachusetts. Random House Kernerman Webster's College ...
Part V The 17th Century The Period of Revolution and Restoration 热度: Lifeinthe17thCentury RememberTheOrganizingPrincipal: Between1607and1763,theBritishNorth Americancoloniesdevelopedexperiencein, andtheexpectationofself-governmentinthe political,religious,economic,andsocial ...
The governor of Massachusetts is elected for a four-year term. The legislature (the General Court) has a senate of 40 members and a house of representatives with 160 members, all of whom serve two-year terms. Massachusetts sends 9 representatives and 2 senators to the U.S. Congress and ha...
School boards have been around longer than America itself. According to the National School Boards Association, local control of public education began in 1647, when the Massachusetts Bay Colony passed a law requiring towns to establish and maintain schools. ...
Policy of the early Massachusetts government as to land grants. Smallness of the farms Township and village Social position of the settlers The town-meeting Selectmen; town-clerk Town-treasurer; constables; assessors of taxes and overseers of the poor Act of 1647 establishing public schools Schoo...
executed for witchcraft. The records of her trial do not exist, so we do not know the exact charges and details of her case, but we do know she had a young daughter. That daughter, Alice Young Beamon, was later accused of witchcraft herself in Springfield,Massachusetts, thirty years ...