Who were the Elizabethan Puritans?Elizabethan Puritans:The Puritans are known in America as the group of English colonists who established the Massachusetts Bay Colony. However, the Puritan movement had been in existence in England since the 1550s....
acquired a chair thought to be from William Brewster, one of the men who established the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1620. But as it turns out, the chair wasn't made in the 1600s. It was made in 1969 by an artist named Armand LaMontagne, who built and aged the chair in his work...
Who started the Boxer Rebellion? Who planned and conducted the Bay of Pigs Invasion? Who discovered the Cuban Missile Crisis? Who led the Bay of Pigs invasion? Who established the Homestead Act in Hawaii? Who started the transatlantic slave trade?
aSeveral of the original Thirteen Colonies were established by English and Irish settlers who wished to practice their own religion without discrimination or persecution: Pennsylvania was established by Quakers, Maryland by Roman Catholics and the Massachusetts Bay Colony by Puritans. The first bible ...
Here they established the form of government upon which the present Constitution of the United States is modeled." President Calvin Coolidge stated in July of 1926, at the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence: “Nonconfo...
used to benefit the arts. Since that time, the foundation has established two main programs: theSaltonstall Arts Colony, which provides New York state artists with month-long retreats; and theIndividual Artist Grants, providing financial assistance to artists in the Finger Lakes region of New ...
and Carl Perkins' sound personifies the rockabilly sound more so than anybody involved in it, because he never changed." Perkins's songs were recorded by artists (and friends) as influential as Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash and Eric Clapton which further established his...
Windham County has a lot of prewar history—the countyestablishedin 1726 butincorporatedWindham in 1692. In the 1800s, the railroads helped grow the area, and sawmills, gristmills, cotton mills, and blacksmithing drove the economy. After World War II, many factories closed or relocated to othe...
Within five years after its founding, Massachusetts established schools for children. Every child should learn to read so he could read the Bible. As one Massachusetts law stated, "It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures...scho...
In Elise Hooper’s novel, May meets a number of established women artists who show her the way. The first isElizabeth Jane Gardner,a Paris-trained American artist who in 1868 was one of the first women (includingMary Cassatt) who had a painting accepted in the Paris salon. They meet at...