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executions of Puritans in England, Puritans decided to seek a new life in the new world, which led to the Massachusetts bay colony. By letting them seek a new life, King Charles I approved by signing of the charter of the Massachusetts bay colony to the Dorchester Company. The charter states that people can choose who can govern them in the colony and the necessities the colony must have. The puritan leaders arrived and start to establish the colony based on God’s laws. “The Scarlet Letter” encloses a lot

Quiz 3 1) How did the American colonies organize to create a revolution? How did their institutions relate to their goals? All through a large portion of colonial history, the British Crown was the main political source that unified all of the American colonies. The Imperial Crisis of the 1770s drove the colonials progressively more toward unification. Americans all through the 13 colonies joined contrary to the new arrangement of royal tax started by the British government in 1765. The fundamental

Union Army and still had a bold life after the war as well. Even after her death, Harriet Tubman’s prided name was not and never will be forgotten. Harriet Tubman had an early life that was anything but ordinary. Araminta Harriet Ross was born in Dorchester

Born into slavery, died a free woman; these are Harriet Tubman’s greatest achievements. Tubman was born in Dorchester County, 1822. Harriet worked in the fields, hauled logs, and did child-care all as a little girl. The greatness of Harriet Tubman is ranked by time risk, and number of people helped. The greatest achievements included being a nurse, caregiver, spy, and ranked the highest, being a Conductor on the Underground Railroad. One of Harriet Tubman’s greatest achievements included

hundred slaves to freedom. She guided them to freedom because, Harriet thought every abolitionist should be free. Harriet’s early years were difficult because she was a slave. Harriet’s original name was Arminta Harriet Ross. She was born in Dorchester County, Maryland on March, 1822. Slave-owners didn’t keep track of slaves birth dates. Harriet had four brothers and four sisters. Their names were Robert, Ben, Henry, Moses, Linah, Mariah Ritty, Soph, and Rachel. When she was at the grocery store

Harriet Tubman was born into slavery in Dorchester County, Maryland. Her birth name was Araminta Ross. She had ten brothers and sisters and as a child worked as a nursemaid for a small baby. She had to stay up all night long to make sure that the baby would not cry and wake up the mother. If Harriet ever fell asleep the mother would whip her. This experience is what made Tubman want to fight for her freedom. She also went through situations that scarred her for life. One of them was when she was

general george washington has taken command, he has come to Cambridge, Massachusetts to take command in our current positioning around Boston. March 18th, 1776        Boston Massachusetts Boston is ours again!in the past weeks we have been in Dorchester to start fortifying the area.

Henry Knox, a 26-year-old self-taught artilleryman, appointed to Chief of the Continental Artillery (Unknown).” In August of 1775, a New York militia company on Manhattan Island confiscated 21 original nine-pounders. Fifty-nine cannons were on Dorchester Heights and Nook's Hill overlooking Boston by March 2 1776. “General Washington ordered the bombardment of the city, and thus began the traditions of the American Field Artillery (Unknown).” The remaining action seen during the Revolutionary War

As other European countries conquered and laid claim to the New World of the Caribbean and West Indies in the late sixteenth century, they brought along the practice of slavery. Eventually, slavery expanded to the north, to colonial America. Like Boston and Roxbury, Springfield Massachusetts became to be known as the most Western settled frontier in the early 1600’s and a city of many firsts. Such firsts include the exploration of the Western front by the likes of William Pynchon to expand the economic

> Michael Dale Cunningham, 64, of Goose Creek, South Carolina passed away on Tuesday, September 27, 2016. Mike had great love for family and friends. He was generous with his time and gave what he could when someone was in need. To this day, he still picked-up hitch-hikers and took them where they needed to go. He was a great fiancé, dad, papa and friend. > > He is survived by his fiancée Tracy Barnard; father Dale (Kay); children Ben (Amy), Chandra, Nick, Tony (Lizz), Alex, and step-son Brian