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The Pilgrims came here because of King James attacking them. Before coming to Massachusetts they settled in Holland, but become unhappy with life there.
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The Pilgrims and Native Americans had a large feast. They gave thanks to God for rain after the two- month drought.
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Massachusetts was the first colony to have slavery. Samuel Maverick was supposedly Massachusetts first slave holder.
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A group of important Puritan businessmen made a venture that they called the Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay.
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It was a military alliance with Massachusetts, Plymouth, New Haven, and Connecticut. It was formed to provide military support against the Native Americans, the Dutch, and the French.
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It merged the colonies of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. This connected them all into one large colony.
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A group of local women are put on trial after being accused of witch-craft. Later, 150 men and women were accused of witch craft and put on trial.
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France’s expansion into Ohio River Valley constantly brought conflict between them and the claims of the British colonies. It was also known as the Seven Years War.
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The Sons of Liberty and Samuel Adams boarded three ships and threw 342 chests of tea overboard. This ultimately resulted in war.
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A series of laws passed by the British parliament after the Boston Tea Party. There purpose was to punish Massachusetts colonist for throwing the tea in the Boston harbor.
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They kicked off the Revolutionary War. There had been tension between the colonies and British authorities for years. On the night of April 18 hundreds of British soldiers marched from Boston to Concord. Paul Revere and others alerted the colonial militiamen began preparing to fight. A confrontation in the Lexington town green started the fighting and the British were soon retreating under intense fire.
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People in Maine companied for statehood for thirty five years. Although no one expected it, their quest for freedom became entangled with slavery.
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He was the sixth president and the only president to be the son of a previous president. He was a member of multiply political parties over the years.
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It was one of the first railroads in the United States It was built to carry granite from Quincy, Massachusetts to a dock on the Neponset River in Milton.
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The first amendment to the U.S. Constitution states that Congress cannot makes laws having to do with religion.
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Charles Thurber created the first practical typewriter. He patented it in 1843. It was slow but had all the essential characteristics of a modern typewriter.
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In 1846 he patented the first practical sewing machine. Walter Hunt and Elias Howe were the men behind the idea
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The idea first founded in his head in 1874. Two years later he applied for a patent. He was granted it on March 7, 1876. He demonstrated it in Boston.
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It was played at what is now Springfield College. The idea of basketball was invented by Dr. James Naismith.
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Over 100 people crowded onto the first train. They traveled 3.5 minutes though a tunnel under downtown Boston.
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It was a strike of immigrant workers. It was led by the Industrial Workers of the World.
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The nightclub was named Cocoanut Grove. It killed 492 and injured 166. It is known as the deadliest nightclub fire ever.
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It was invented by accident. The first ever microwave was about six feet tall and weighed about 750 pounds. The patent was filed on October 8, 1945.
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It was performed in Boston. Multiply attempts failed at first. Peter Medawar had been researching the failing transplants. The Peter Bent Brigham Hospital was the first hospital to perform a successful kidney transplant.
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was the thirty fifth president of the United States. He held office for three years before being assassinated.
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The man who killed John F. Kennedy was named Lee Harvey Oswald. He shot and killed Kennedy as he was traveling by motorcycle.
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He was the first African American elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote.
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Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that is was unconstitutional to allow only opposite sex couple to marry.
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He was hospitalized after suffering a seizure and he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. He later died at his home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.
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Two bombs were set off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. It killed three people and injured 260 others.
