In 1850, Brown founded his first militant, anti-slavery organization – The League of the Gileadites – in Springfield, to protect escaped slaves from 1850s Fugitive Slave Act. Efforts to collect both public and private debts from cash-poor farmers led to protests that flared into direct action in August 1786. From 1658 to 1820 Maine was an integral part of Massachusetts. Consternation ensued. But the inhabitants of the Connecticut River border towns petitioned to be part of Connecticut in 1724, perhaps due to high taxes in Massachusetts or the greater civil liberties granted in the Connecticut charter. The commonwealth formally adopted the state constitution in 1780, electing John Hancock as its first governor. indicate majority support for gay marriage among the people of the Commonwealth, it is likely that the issue is settled in Massachusetts. ", Susan M. Ouellette, "Divine providence and collective endeavor: Sheep production in early Massachusetts.". A small amount of land was also added to Westport, Massachusetts. The history of the boundaries of Massachusetts is somewhat complex and covers several centuries. His first victory was the Siege of Boston in the winter of 1775–76, after which the British were forced to evacuate the city. The economy of rural Massachusetts suffered an economic depression after the war ended. The center of "Old Rehoboth" was within the borders of modern East Providence, Rhode Island. Boston, in the year 1900, was still the second most important port in the United States, as well as the most valuable U.S. port in terms of its fish market. His son, John Quincy Adams, would go on to become the sixth US President. In 1686, Suffield and Enfield (incorporated in Massachusetts) were in a dispute over town territory with Windsor and Simsbury (incorporated in Connecticut, and which then included Granby). ", Mary J. Oates, "'Lowell': An Account of Convent Life in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1852-1890.". With the local population largely opposing British authority, troops moved from Boston on April 18, 1775, to destroy the military supplies of local resisters in Concord. René Chartrand, French Fortresses in North America 1535–1763: Quebec, Montreal, Louisbourg and New Orleans (Fortress 27); Osprey Publishing, March 20, 2005. Established representative gov., 1st written constitution in America. In 1640, during a grain shortage, Hooker and other Connecticut leaders gave Pynchon permission to buy grain for them; however, because the Indians were refusing to sell at reasonable prices, Pynchon refused the Indians' offers. The first successful ironworks in America was established at Saugus in 1646,[54] utilizing bog iron from swamps to produce plows, nails, firearms, hoops for barrels and other items necessary for the development of the Colony. In 1624, the Dorchester Company established a settlement on Cape Ann. Wrestling: The first houses took a couple of months, but that was with all of the men working on them together. Industrial cities, especially Worcester and Springfield, became important centers in textile machinery (in Worcester's case) and precision tool production and innovation (in Springfield's case.) The Sheffield Patent granted the use of Cape Ann to members of the Plymouth Colony and the Dorchester Company. (1988). Mason threatened the Natives by Springfield with war if they did not sell grain at the prices he demanded. During Queen Anne's War, Massachusetts men were involved in the Conquest of Acadia (1710), which became the Province of Nova Scotia. Other industries would be established during this period, such as shipbuilding, lumber, paper and furniture making. [106] Massachusetts complained, and Connecticut demanded that Springfield pay taxes to support the upkeep of the fort at the mouth of the river, in the Saybrook Colony. Massachusetts politics were long dominated by the Republican Party—from after the Civil War until 1952. [43] In 1777, George Washington and Henry Knox founded the Arsenal at Springfield, which catalyzed many innovations in Massachusetts' Connecticut River Valley. The Pilgrim Fathers who sailed on the Mayflower established the first permanent settlement in 1620 at Plymouth Colony which set precedents but never grew large. [35], In 1755, about 4:15 am on Tuesday, November 18, was the most destructive earthquake yet known in New England. Massachusetts began as two colonial settlements. Britain began to increase taxes on the New England colonies, and tensions grew with implementation of the Navigation Acts. Massachusetts became a leader in industrial innovation and development during the 19th century. The line extending west from the stake was surveyed in 1719, but inaccurately. The first year was extremely difficult, with inadequate supplies and very harsh weather, but Wampanoag sachem Massasoit and his people assisted them. The Plymouth Company was reorganized as the Plymouth Council for New England, and given a new royal sea-to-sea charter for all North American territory from 40° North (just east between present-day Philadelphia and Trenton, New Jersey) and 48° N (thus including all of modern-day New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island). [23] Teenaged Benjamin Franklin (born on January 17, 1706, in Milk Street) worked on one of the earliest newspapers, The New-England Courant (owned by his brother) until he ran away to Philadelphia in 1723. The colony grew slowly over the next ten years, and was estimated to have 300 inhabitants by 1630.[7]. The northern portion came under Massachusetts Bay control in the 1640s. Boston responded, launching naval expeditions against Acadia and Quebec in both wars. The Commonwealth had several notable citizens in federal government in the 1980s, including presidential hopeful Senator Ted Kennedy and House Speaker Tip O'Neill. Commissioners from Rhode Island had the new boundary surveyed in 1746 (without consulting Massachusetts), based on six reference points, from each of which a distance was measured 3 miles inland. Massachusetts was no longer a colony; it was a state and part of a new nation, the United States of America. With steel came heavier trains and more powerful locomotives. Chapin Hall, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass. The mountainous terrain made it difficult for Massachusetts authorities to enforce the law there, making the neighborhood a haven for outlaws and prize-fighters. The extravagance angered the taxpayers; few Know Nothings were reelected so the brief two-year experiment ended. Answer and Explanation: "The Rise and Demise of the Connecticut River Valley's Industrial Economy. Finally, in 1661, Plymouth completed the "North Purchase", from which Cumberland, Rhode Island, Attleboro, Massachusetts, and North Attleborough, Massachusetts, were later to be formed. [50] One of the first students was reclusive poet Emily Dickinson. Winter homes would be up to 80 feet wide and 100 feet long. In Boston alone, about a hundred were leveled; about fifteen hundred were damaged, the streets in some places almost covered with fallen bricks. These tribes were generally dependent on hunting and fishing for most of their food supply. In the years following WWII, Massachusetts was transformed from a factory-based economy to one based on services and technology. [47], The state put down the rebellion—but if it had been too weak to do so it would be no help to call on the ineffective federal government. Lyon, a very active Congregationalist, promoted the college as an exemplification of the ideas of revivalist Jonathan Edwards regarding self-restraint, self-denial, and disinterested benevolence. [31][32] Colonial governments used workarounds to accept paper notes as payment for taxes and pressured Parliament to repeal the prohibition on paper money as legal tender for public debts, which Parliament ultimately did in 1773. Dukes County, Massachusetts (Martha's Vineyard and the Elizabeth Islands), and Nantucket were also transferred from the Province of New York. ", Connolly, Michael C. "Splitting the Vote in Massachusetts: Father Charles E. Coughlin, the Union Party, and Political Divisions in the 1936 Presidential and Senate Elections.". The royally approved three-mile boundary moved several towns on the eastern shore of Narragansett Bay (east of the mouth of the Blackstone River) from Massachusetts to Rhode Island. The British made a desperate attempt by using biological weapons against the Americans by sending infected civilians with smallpox behind American lines but this was soon contained by Continental General George Washington who launched a vaccination program to ensure his troops and civilians were in good health after the damage biological warfare caused. Massachusetts was the first state to recruit, train, and arm a Black regiment with White officers, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Massachusetts State History: 1620-1820 study guide by emily1533 includes 20 questions covering vocabulary, terms and more. "The New Deal in Massachusetts," in John Braeman et al. The extreme end of the Cape was inhabited by the closely related Nauset tribe. The 1705 Westenhook Patent from the governor of New York allocated land west of the Housatonic River to specific individuals, resulting in ownership conflicts. The industrial economy began a decline in the early 20th century with the exodus of many manufacturing companies. Garrison founded the New England Anti-Slavery Society in 1832, and helped change perceptions on slavery. Following colonial tradition, welfare remained the province of the municipalities until it was taken over by the state in 1970. The Boston metropolitan area became one of the slowest-growing areas in the United States between 1920 and 1950. Notable royal governors during this period were Joseph Dudley, Thomas Hutchinson, Jonathan Belcher, Francis Bernard, and General Thomas Gage. State programs now stress training and educating welfare recipients to help them to become self-sufficient. [97], In 1987, the state received federal funding for the Central Artery/Tunnel Project. Massachusetts was a hotbed of abolitionism – particularly the progressive cities of Boston and Springfield – and contributed to subsequent actions of the state during the Civil War. ", Breitborde, Mary-Lou, and Kelly Kolodny. King Charles formally vacated the Massachusetts charter in 1684. After Mason left, settlers of Agawam Plantation rallied in support of Pynchon. Baptist leader Isaac Backus vigorously fought these provisions, arguing people should have freedom of choice regarding financial support of religion. In 1690, the Massachusetts Bay Colony became the first to issue paper money in what would become the United States, but soon others began printing their own money as well. The state has numerous private preparatory schools of national ranking. For example, when the legislature decreed that women and children could work only 50 hours per week, employers cut wages proportionally. [101][104], Both states filed bills of equity with the Supreme Court in 1852, and after more surveying and negotiation, a decree was issued on December 16, 1861. But by that time, Rhode Island claimed that the 1861 Supreme Court case had changed matters so much as to render the "line of 1848" unacceptable. College Row, Amherst College, Amherst, Mass. In 1830, the legislature chartered three new railroads—the Boston and Lowell, the Boston and Providence, and most important of all, the Boston and Worcester. Colonial matters brought to his attention led him to propose the amalgamation of all of the New England colonies into a single administrative unit. The state was an early leader in the fight to improve social conditions. Between 1921 and 1949 the failure of those industries resulted in rampant unemployment and the urban decay of once-prosperous industrial centers which would persist for several decades. These settlers become known as “Pilgrims”. [61], It passed legislation to regulate railroads, insurance companies, and public utilities. The legislature then called on Congress to raise the requirement for naturalization from five years to 21 years, but Congress never acted. Although the new program was fraught with difficulty, it was an improvement over the system that existed in the mid-19th century, when citizens were still imprisoned for debt. Conflicts arose over the arbitrariness of the assistants, and in 1641 the legislature created the Body of Liberties. ", Anderson, Alexis. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, politics became a means to a better life—to a place alongside the Boston Brahmins of Mayflower heritage—for the Irish and other immigrant groups who experienced great discrimination and hostility. File:Street railway workers with a thermite crucible on Main Street, Holyoke, 1904.png, Although the basic rail system was in place by 1860, the railways continued to make major improvements in tracks, signals, bridging, and facilities. The two major industries of Massachusetts, shoes and textiles, had declined in a way that even the post-World War II economic boom could not reverse. Suburbanization flourished, and by the 1970s, the Route 128 corridor was dotted with high-technology companies who recruited graduates of the area's many elite institutions of higher education.[91]. Massachusetts accepted the nullification of the 1713 compromise and the loss of the border towns, but regained the portion of southern Southwick west of the lake. All of these economic changes encouraged suburbanization and the formation of a new generation of well-assimilated and educated middle-class workers. By the late 1630s, however, the New E… By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica. John Adams was a leader in the independence movement and he helped secure a unanimous vote for independence and on July 4, 1776, the United States Declaration of Independence was adopted in Philadelphia. Constitutional framework. Merchants, pressured for hard currency by overseas partners, made similar demands on local debtors, and the state raised taxes in order to pay off its own war debts. The surveyors could not find the 1642 stake, and so marked a line from three miles south, by their reckoning, of "Poppatolish Pond" (presumably Populatic Pond, near Norfolk Airpark in Norfolk, Massachusetts). They accidentally marked the boundary with Rhode Island significantly farther than the royally decreed three miles south of the southernmost part of the Charles River. After 1860, kerosene replaced whale oil—concurrent with the devastation of the whaling fleet by Confederate commerce raiders—and the entrepreneurs shifted to manufacturing.[59]. They voted out the traditional upper-class closed political leadership class, especially the lawyers and merchants. The diocese, under financial pressure, closed many of its churches. Meanwhile, the Plymouth Colony had settled outside the territory of the London company due to navigational difficulties. The successful outcome of the American Revolution did much to further broaden the franchise in Massachusetts and establish a more democratic form of government, embodied in the constitution of 1780. [107], In 1791, and 1793, commissioners were sent from both states to survey the boundary line yet again, but were unable to agree until a compromise was reached in 1803–04. Unlike southern colonies, it was built around small towns rather than scattered farms. Massachusetts relinquished sovereignty over its western lands (east of the Great Lakes) to New York in the Treaty of Hartford in 1786, but retained the economic right to buy the Boston Ten Townships from Native Americans before any other party. In 1607, the Plymouth Company was granted a coastal charter for all coastal territory up to a certain distance from the eastern shoreline of North America, from 38°N to 45°N. Puritan minister Cotton Mather and physician Zabdiel Boylston led the drive for inoculation, while physician William Douglass and newspaper editor James Franklin led the opposition. [39] Anti-British activity by men like Sam Adams and John Hancock, followed by reprisals by the British government, were a primary reason for the unity of the Thirteen Colonies and the outbreak of the American Revolution. Formisano, Ronald P., and Constance K. Burns, eds. The largely industrial economy of Massachusetts began to falter, however, due to the dependence of factory communities upon the production of one or two goods. The first woolen mill, and the second textile mill in the Blackstone Valley, was a "wool carding mill", established in 1810 by Daniel Day, near the West River and Blackstone River at Uxbridge, Massachusetts. On February 4, 2004, the SJC followed that ruling with a statement saying that allegedly separate but equal civil unions, implemented as of late in Vermont, would not pass constitutional muster and that only full gay marriage rights met constitutional guarantees. Today, Massachusetts is the only one of the 13 original states still governed under its first constitution, which is the oldest governing constitution in the world. Holyoke is home to the international Volleyball Hall of Fame. For example, each governor was ordered to enact legislation for providing permanent salaries for crown officials, but the legislature refused to do so, using its ability to grant stipends annually as a means of control over the governor. Stone walls collapsed. [100], In 1748, Rhode Island appointed a commission to survey the line from the stake to the Connecticut border, but Massachusetts failed to send a delegation. Answer Save. [99] Often controversial, with numerous claims of graft and mismanagement, and with its initial price tag of $2.5 billion increasing to a final tally of over $15 billion, the Big Dig has nonetheless changed the face of Downtown Boston. The issue was not addressed until 1740, when Rhode Island appealed to King George II of Great Britain. Apostolov, Steven. Most farming towns were largely self-sufficient, with families trading with each other for items they did not produce themselves; the surplus was sold to cities. Dr. Edward A. Holyoke, of Salem, wrote in his diary that he "thought of nothing less than being buried instantly in the ruins of the house." [6] This was the second permanent English colony in America following Jamestown Colony. The Congregationalists remained dominant in rural areas, but, in the cities, a new religious sensibility had replaced their straight-laced Calvinism. A year later Charlestown organized the first board of selectmen, the emergence of such local government balancing the power of the colony’s executive. Roxbury Latin School, founded in 1645, is among the country’s oldest. Commissioners from both colonies met at Hampton, New Hampshire in 1737, but were unable to reach agreement. In January 1787 Shays and Luke Day organized an attempt to take the federal Springfield Armory; state militia holding the armory beat back the attempt with cannon fire. [48], John Chapman often called Johnny "Appleseed" (born on September 26, 1774, in Leominster, Massachusetts) was an American folk hero and pioneer nurseryman who introduced apple trees and established orchards to many areas in the Midwestern region of the country including Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana. [14], King Philip's War (1675–76) was the bloodiest Indian war of the colonial period. ", James G. Lydon, "North Shore Trade in the Early Eighteenth Century,", Larry Allen, "Currency Act of 1751 (England)" and "Currency Act of 1764 (England)" in, Herman Belz, "Currency Reform in Colonial Massachusetts, 1749-1750,", Amalie M. Kass, "Boston's Historic Smallpox Epidemic. Pynchon's perceived greed infuriated Hartford; however, Pynchon explained that he was merely trying to keep market prices steady so that colonists need not pay exorbitant amounts in the future. Several Massachusetts politicians have run for the office of President of the United States in this period, won the primary elections, and gone on to contest the national elections. [11][12] Pynchon annexed Springfield to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1640 rather than the much closer Connecticut Colony over tensions with Connecticut following the Pequot War. The town of Springfield was settled in 1636 by William Pynchon (as Agawam Plantation), encompassing the modern towns of Westfield, Southwick, West Springfield, Agawam, Chicopee, Holyoke, Wilbraham, Ludlow and Longmeadow in Massachusetts, and Enfield, Suffield, Somers, and East Windsor in Connecticut. Below it are the Appeals Court and various trial court departments, including those of the superior courts (which conduct felony jury trials) and district courts. 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