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Massachusetts - A Colony
Title: Massachusetts - A Colony
Category: History
Details: Words: 1002 | Pages: 4.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Massachusetts - A Colony
Massachusetts is quite possibly the most famous of the 13 Colonies, laying claim to the Pilgrims' landing and the Boston Tea Party, as well as the first battles of the Revolutionary War--Lexington and Concord. Native Americans, of course, were living in Massachusetts long before Europeans arrived. Among them were the Wampanoag, the Nauset, and the Massachuset. These people were largely agricultural, although they did a good amount of fishing and trading with French and British settlers.
European settlement of the Massachusetts colony began in 1620, with …showed first 85 words of 1002 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 1002 total…many people lost a lot of money. Among the most discontented were farmers in western Massachusetts, who banded together and tried to get their money back by force. Their leader was a man named Daniel Shays, and the whole thing was called Shays' Rebellion The Rebellion and the government's inability to solve the deepening crisis led the colonies to re-examine the Articles and, in fact, create a new form of government, as outlined in the Constitution. Massachusetts was the sixth state to ratify the Constitution.
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