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of Joseph and Mary Dix. Both parents were known to suffer from alcoholism and bouts of depression, while her father was prone to violent outbursts. This unstable home environment lead Dix to seek refuge with her wealthy grandmother in Boston, Massachusetts where her blossoming interest in learning and education was strongly encouraged. Two years after moving in with her grandmother, at the young age of only 14, Dix began her career as a teacher. By 1821 she opened her first of several schools…

Abigail Smith Adams was born to William Smith and Elizabeth Quincy in Weymouth, Massachusetts on November 11, 1744. Her Father was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts on January 29th, 1706. He was a Congregational minister before he died in 1783. Her mother was born in Braintree, Massachusetts in 1721 and married in 1740 before she died in 1775. Abigail was known as “Mrs. President” due to the amount of influence and strength she portrayed as first lady of the United States. In her childhood,…

This is reflected in Post-Revolution Massachusetts. As William Manning states, “Property was selling almost every day by execution for less than half its value. The jails were crowded with debtors.” In other words people were losing their land as they had limited money pay for the ostensibly high taxes imposed on them (Manning). Per Bowdoin’s piece, it is stated that the state of Massachusetts further worsened the financial state, “The debt of Massachusetts alone, was $5,000,000, and taxation of…

Introduction The Boston Massacre also known as the “massacre perpetrated in King Street” is quite possibly the most misnamed event in American history. What was in 1770 considered a massacre, would today by historians be seen as merely an angry mob gone awry. A massacre, as defined by Webster's Dictionary is an act or instance of killing a number of usually helpless or unresisting human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty. But were those citizens involved in the massacre really…

number of years however Elias Howe is ultimately considered the inventor of the sewing machine. Elias Howe was born on July 9, 1819 in Spencer, Massachusetts. Howe spent his childhood and early adult years in Massachusetts where he apprenticed in a textile factory beginning in 1835. After mill closings due to the Panic of 1837 he moved to Cambridge,Massachusetts. Beginning in 1838 he apprenticed in the shop of a master mechanic in Cambridge by the name of Ari Davis who specialized in the…

transformed into a society with less religious fervor because problems with the natives and a desire for more secular goods and possessions made it hard and not popular for the Pilgrims to actively practice their religion. From the beginning of the Massachusetts Bay colony, John Winthrop explicitly states the intentions for the colony to be a religious haven for Puritans when he says that “the Lord make it like that of New England.’ For we must Consider that we shall be as a City upon a Hill”…

Witchcraft took place in many places around the world, including Salem, Massachusetts, England, and Scotland. Most people that were accused of being witches rejected Jesus and holy sacraments. Also, they were said to have made pacts with evil spirits. Although Witchcraft occurred in some places earlier than others, it had the same concept everywhere. One of the many places where witchcraft was popular was in Salem, Massachusetts. Witchcraft accusations started when people started…

English America. It was not until 1692 when citizens of Salem, Massachusetts decided to start prosecuting and hanging their neighbors as witches. These prosecutions and the deaths that came with them are known as the Salem Witch Trials. There are many reasons, two major ones being religion and politics , why the trials started in the first place. At the time a strict, religious group known as the puritans were in control of Massachusetts. Religion was one of the causes of the events that…

Community of Massachusetts and forced to wear a scarlet letter “A” to identify herself as an adulterer. In the process of writing the book, Hawthorne creates a social community on the Puritan Community which he felt was hypocritical and repressive. An aspect of the religious community that contributed to the accusations of witch craft during the Salem Witch Trials, a historical event that Hawthorne uses as a reference in The Scarlet Letter. Nathanial Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts in…

In order to adequately answer this question we must first identify the reasons for colonization in each of these regions. To begin, the southern colonies were colonies that were established by the English and included Roanoke, Jamestown, Maryland, Virginia Company, Georgia and the colonies in the Carolinas. Roanoke was the first English colony in the New World, in response to the French founding several colonies in the New World. The purpose of Jamestown was for economic gain. Furthermore,…