Two of the many selections that I have appointed were Olaudah Equiano‚ and Plymouth Plantation. The writers’ interest of oppression for Olaudah Equiano would simply have to be because they were slaves. The writer described how the voyage that they were forced upon was‚ and how their living quarters were. They also described in harsh detail what it meant to be galled from being harshly beaten with whips‚ chains‚ etc.”The shrieks of women‚ and the groans of the dying‚ rendered the whole a scene of
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Delaware‚ Georgia‚ Maryland‚ Massachusetts‚ New Hampshire‚ New Jersey‚ New York‚ North Carolina‚ South Carolina‚ Pennsylvania‚ Rhode Island and Virginia. The New England colonies were Rhode Island‚Connecticut‚Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Rhode Island was the 1st to declare independence from England but last of thirteen to become a state because of concerns over being fairly represented in spite of size.Connecticut was settled by Puritans from Massachusetts; state laws were model for US Constitution
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school attendance based on the Prussian model gradually spread to other countries‚ reaching the American State of Massachusetts in 1852‚ and spreading to other states until‚ in 1917‚ Mississippi was the last state to enact a compulsory attendance law.[6] Massachusetts had originally enacted the first compulsory education law in the American colonies in 1647. In 1852‚ the Massachusetts General Court passed a law requiring every town to create and operate a grammar school. Fines were imposed on parents
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Literature in the united states has undergone great changes since the founding of America. It started with the puritans and changed and metamorphosed into the literature and arts that we have today. In the 1600s‚ the puritans had very strict beliefs‚ but as the centuries went on‚ the importance of religion declined and free thinking and other elements arose in its place. Colonialism came puritanism which changed the ideologies on fate and the importance of religion began to waver. The romantics
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who didn’t want to pray to the church of England‚ so in 1628‚ a group of Puritans came to Massachusetts for freedom of religion. Everyone that lived in Massachusetts had to pray in Puritan churches‚ and they didn’t want their people to have freedom of religion either. Roger Williams lived with the Puritans. He told them that everyone should have the right to choose their religion‚ and then he left Massachusetts and traveled through the forests‚ and met Native Americans who helped him‚ and sold him
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founded by the Puritans who were escaping England’s persecutions to adopt their own‚ faster reforming church (Doc A). The Puritans that thought the Anglican Church was too slow broke away from it‚ causing their name to now be Separatists‚ and founded Plymouth‚ Winthrop primarily. Connecticut was founded by energetic Puritans who wanted a more theocratic government‚ causing the creation of Blue Laws‚ which dictated colonies behavior (Doc E). The Chesapeake colonies originated with Jamestown‚ whose settlers
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received $2.3 billion in National Institutes Health (NIH) research grant money. Hospitals in Massachusetts accumulated large amounts of debt in the 1970’s and the 1980’s as they refurbished older facilities‚ expanded services‚ and purchased expensive new technologies. Describe the health care environment in Massachusetts. Two years after enacting health-care reform to rein in costs‚ Massachusetts strengthened "certificate of need laws" that prevent hospitals and other providers from competing
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either named after people‚ Indian names or‚ places in England. The original states/colonies are‚ Massachusetts‚ Rhode Island‚ Connecticut‚ New York‚ Georgia‚ North Carolina‚ Maryland‚ South Carolina‚ Delaware‚ Pennsylvania‚ Virginia‚ New Hampshire and New Jersey. The three states that are named specifically after Indian names are Massachusetts‚ Rhode Island and Connecticut. The Puritans named Massachusetts‚ after a local Indian tribe whose name means "a large hill place." Rhode Island was named after
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the Puritans lived by. The Salem Witch Trials took place in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1692 and claimed the lives of many innocent people. It led to the hangings of almost twenty‚ leaving more than one hundred in prison. A group of young girls in Salem Village accused several local women of witchcraft while being claimed of being possessed by the devil. This is causing a wave of hysteria to spread throughout colonial Massachusetts. Starting in January of 1692‚ Betty Parris and Abigail Williams
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New England/ America and the Mid- Atlantic New England is a region in the northeastern corner of the United States consisting of six states: Massachusetts‚ Maine‚ New Hampshire‚ Vermont‚ Rhode Island‚ and Connecticut. New England is bordered by New York State to the west‚ Long Island to the south‚ the Atlantic Ocean and the Canadian province of New Brunswick to the east‚ and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north. The earliest known inhabitants of New England were American Indians who spoke
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