History of Massachusetts (Part 1 of 2)

Before the arrival of Europeans, the area that today the state of Massachusetts native peoples of various Algonquian-speaking Americans, including Massachusetts, Pennacook, the Wampanoag, the Nauset, the Nipmuc, the Pocomtuc Mahican that, and the Narragansett town Mohegan is. Unfortunately, all these peoples were soon decimated by smallpox, when the first Europeans in North America.

In 1620, the pilgrims from England on the Mayflower, establishing a> Plymouth Colony. As Native Americans, the Pilgrims suffered from smallpox. However, they were helped by the Wampanoags and celebrated their first Thanksgiving with the Indians for the year 1621. The English settlers, Native Americans were known as Yengeeze (his pronunciation of "English"). This is the origin of the word "Yankee."

In the following decades were followed by pilgrims and Puritans, Anglicans, was a colony of Boston, andQuakers. However, there have been religious tensions, with Quakerism and Quakers hanged four Colony banned in Boston. The English colonies were established in Connecticut and Rhode Colony Iceland, when dissidents fleeing the lack of religious tolerance in Massachusetts Bay.

In the reign of King James II of England, who was a sincere Catholic, of the Massachusetts Bay Colony's charter revoked. A short-lived Dominion of New England wasformat, but the Royal Government was overthrown by the colonial masters. Next, Plymouth 'overthrow James Colony and Massachusetts Bay Colony (Boston), the merger and a new Royal Charter was granted 1692nd

1692, the Salem witch trials reported. The experiments lasted until May 1693 and led to the deaths of 20 people (14 women and 6 men), and possession of more than 150