Why was the Massachusetts colony started?
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By the pilgrams for religious freedom
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Social Studies\n\nAmerica began as colonies of England, France, Spain, and the Netherlands. The story of America as a nation must begin with the colonization of the East Coast.\n\nhttp://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/subjects/colonialtimes.htm\n\nJamestown and how America started.\n\nhttp://www.east-buc.k12.ia.us/01_02/AH/jt/jt.htm\n\nhttp://cvesd.k12.ca.us/finney/journey/___thebeginning.html\n\nhttp://www.east-buc.k12.ia.us/01_02/AH/ca_intro.htm\n\nhttp://www.apva.org/history/\n\nhttp://www.academicinfo.net/usearlycolonial.html\n\n Although there were other Europeans who had visited and even tried to establish colonies on the eastern coast of the New World, the British were the first to establish a permanent colony. They named their fort Jamestown.\n\nhttp://www.dasd-ew.org/kirk/jamestown.htm\n\nThe American Colonies\n\nThe history of the original 13 colonies is a tangled tale indeed. There are many ways to view the events and, in hind sight, it is easy to think you understand. But no one knew where they were headed at the time and it could have ended up very different.\n\nhttp://www.dasd-ew.org/history.htm#colonial\n\nhttp://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook12.html\n\nhttp://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/colonial/index.html\n\nhttp://www.timepage.org/spl/13colony.html\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was one of the original thirteen colonies. It was the second state to ratify the U.S. Constitution on December 12, 1787, after Delaware.
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Same reason they settled in other colonies: opportunity!!  Opportunity to worship, to self-governance, to create something, to start over, for an adventure!
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They were called 'colonies'. England colonized the eastern US in the early 1500's, the 13 original colonies became states when the United States was formed by the continental congress when the Declaration Of Independence was signed in 1776. More recently, Standard Oil has tried to re-colonize the US and institute a petro-government, but the american people aren't havin' it. Sucks to be Standard Oil(or offshoots or daughter companies. Sorry, guys).
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1778 - I think Thomas Jefferson started it
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Religion.  Thanksgiving.  Mayflower Compact.  Massachusetts.  Colony.
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The New England area, mostly Massachusetts.
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At the point in time when the colonies were developing, they used water power! New England had plenty of streams and rivers. Its shoreline and oak forest aided the shipbuilding industry.
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To declare our independance from Britain. The Declaration stated the reasons why the thirteen colonies were freeing themselves from British Rule.\nJust read the ideals part of the declaration. It tells u pretty much why in more detail.
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Four states in the United States officially designate themselves "commonwealths": Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.\n\nIn these cases, this is merely a name and has no constitutional impact. They thus emphasize that they have a "government based on the common consent of the people", instead of a government legitimized through their earlier Royal Colony status that was derived from the King of England.
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you mean when the state started?  check out any history site for american history or check out the university in connecticut for info
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it helped them by providing a product they could export/sell back in europe.  this in turn provided money and an economy that allowed the colony to survive.
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Boston. Damn British. We taught em though.
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Boston is a city, it never had a Governor. Did you want the Governors of Mass. or the Mayors of Boston in the 1800's???
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Holyoke, Massachusetts. That is where the sport was originated in 1885.
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Daniel Shays led a group of Massachusetts farmers in a revolt against the state government because they were being taxed and the local militia was not protecting them from the Indians onthe western frontier of Massachusetts.  Under the Articles of Confederation (the U.S. Constitution at the time [1785]) there was no power to tax--therefore no state militias could be provided.  With no military protection Shays and his followers were able to take over the state house unopposed.  When the rebellion was finally quelled several days later it showed massachusetts and other states that they HAD to have a stronger national constitution that allowed for the taxation of states to provide tax dollars to pay for military protection.  Therefore it was Shays's Rebellion that led DIRECTLY to the organization of the Constitutional Convention two years later in Philadelphia.