Town Meeting appointed him to write instructions for Boston’s delegation to the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Decemeber 16‚ 1773 was the Boston Tea Party which Samuel Adams played a leading role in. A year after that in 1774‚ Samuel Adams signed the Declaration of Independence afterwards becoming a moderator for the Boston Town Meeting. In 1789‚ Samuel Adams was elected Lieutenant Govenor of Massachusetts. He served until 1793 where he became acting govenor. He retired in 1797 after his
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Agriculture - While not fertile‚ towns were surrounded by farms owned by the workers. They had a high degree of mechanical ingenuity and self-sufficiency. Fishing - In 1633‚ Boston first exported fish. In 1639‚ Massachusetts was exempted from paying taxes on fishing boats. The fishing industry was huge by 1700. Over and above normal fishing‚ whaling was also a major occupation of the region. Commerce - Individuals from the New England area were heavily involved in commerce. The trade with England
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The Boston Massacre Trial: Guilty or Not Guilty? The Boston Massacre was a small tragedy that is making a large mark in the state of Massachusetts. This event will forever be remembered as the day that British soldiers heartlessly slaughtered many innocent civilians. The soldiers in this situation are most definitely guilty of manslaughter. They wounded and killed many citizens without provocation that threatened their well being‚ therefore giving them no good reason to have opened fire in the
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the American Revolution began‚ and shots were fired. Robert Gross‚ he wrote a good book on the lives of ordinary people during the Revolution war called‚ “The Minuteman and their World”. The Revolution began at the Old North Bride in Concord‚ Massachusetts. Gross used documents that were legal and other sources to give the readers an inside look on people in the community. To begin‚ the ordinary life of farmers and town’s people were Gross main focus in the book. Gross described how the government
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On March 5‚ 1770‚ in Boston‚ Massachusetts‚ a mob of our patriotic colonists gathered around a British officer to confront him. The awful lad responded with violence! This fatal incident was caused by an uproar between our patriots and these British officers. This lethal massacre concluded with seven colonists dead‚ killing three on the spot. British Captain Thomas Preston‚ the commanding officer at the Customs House‚ ordered his men to fix their bayonets and join the guard outside the building
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Anass Elwawi ENGL 2290 Dr.Shawn Casey September 16‚ 2016 Mary Rowlandson Response Paper Mary Rowlandson‚ the daughter of a wealthy land holder in the Massachusetts Bay colony‚ was a victim of the King Philip war. She got married to Joseph Rowlandson at the age of 18‚ they had four children‚ one in which died in infancy. Shortly before the King Philip war ended a group of American Indians attacked the city of Lancaster and captured Mrs. Rowlandson along with her 3 children and a group of settlers
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labelled “Witches” or evidence of a witch‚ often involving moral panic or mass hysteria. Many witch hunts occurred before the “Salem’s witch hunts” in March 01‚ 1692; according to the website www.history.com. About eighty people throughout England’s Massachusetts Bay Colony were accused of practicing witchcraft; thirteen women and two men were executed in a witch-hunt that occurred throughout New England and lasted from 1645-1663. In the Ancient Near East‚ punishment for malevolent sorcery is addressed
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Daniel Shaye was a poor farmhand from Massachusetts when the Revolution broke out. He joined the Continental Army where he fought at Lexington‚ Bunker Hill‚ and Saratoga‚ and was eventually wounded in action. In 1780‚ he resigned from the army unpaid and went home to find himself in court for the nonpayment of debts. He soon found that he was not alone in being unable to pay his debts‚ and once even saw a sick woman who had her bed taken out from under her because she was also unable to pay. He started
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I never imagined the extent of the story Mr. Miller wrote. What I realized‚ the story The Crucible support the notion of theatrical universality. The play was written in 1953 but the story took place in 1692 about people in Salem‚ Massachusetts. The main concept of theatrical universality is people in one culture that is different‚ can relate to another culture. The boundaries of time‚ space‚ or dissimilar culture does not hinder the understanding of the relationship of the theme. At
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left their home not only because they were being persecuted for their faith‚ but they also left so that they could freely worship their God in the way they felt was necessary. An example of how the Puritans adulated their God‚ can be found in “Of Plymouth Plantation” (pg 5). William Bradford wrote this‚ knowing that it would become a historical document. For this reason‚ he didn’t incorporate any of his own feelings and the journal was written in third person point of view. “Being thus arrived in
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