Massachusetts

Massachusetts was named after the Massachusett tribe an Algonquian-speaking Native American tribe. The Massachusett were part of the larger Wampanoag Confederacy that inhabited the area before the arrival of European settlers. The name Massachusetts is derived from the Massachusett tribe\'s name for the Great Hill (or "Mount Wachusett") located in what is now Harvard Massachusetts. The name was likely chosen by the English colonists in honor of the tribe\'s friendly welcome.

The Massachusett tribe was a significant presence in the area and their influence is still seen today in numerous place names such as Boston Worcester Marlborough and Brookline to name a few. The tribe\'s language has also survived as the Massachusett language is still spoken in the local Wampanoag communities. The Massachusett tribe was deeply intertwined with the history of the Massachusetts colony and the name "Massachusetts" is a reminder of the tribe\'s presence and influence.

for religious freedom

Yes, but not what we would call evidence. It was assumed it ws evidence.

The reason Bridget Bishop was the only one tried on June 2nd was because they had found what they thought were witches tools in her home and she was the only one the found anything for. That made it hard because the debate about whether or not to use spectral evidence as evidence.

Yes. These included the Separatist minister Roger Williams in 1635 and Anne Hutchinson's followers in 1637.

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Plymouth Rock

Plymouth Colony was better than Jamestown Colony because it was more organized in Plymouth Colony. The people knew who was in charge and they obeyed orders and worked together. Jamestown was not organized and there was also a deep resentment from the Native Americans there.

The first governor of Massachusetts was John Hancock who served from October 25, 1780 - January 29, 1785.

Maine. Formed from Massachusetts (both)

Both Massachusetts bay colony and Virginia both suffered casualties. Casualties in Massachusetts were less severe than Virginia (30% party loss for Massachusetts but thousands more settlers on the way) Massachusetts attracted hard working well mannered men and women who established the colony on a firm basis.

They didn't accept the freedom. Their devotion to principle was gods work

He looked down upon the Indians. He said they were "savage and brutish men" that were little more than "wild beasts."

Most people in the New England colonies came to America for freedom of religion. Some also had economic reasons.

The Massachusetts Bay Colony, more formally The Colony of Massachusetts Bay, was an English settlement on the east coast of America around the Massachusetts Bay, the northernmost of the several colonies later reorganized as the Province of Massachusetts Bay. The lands of the settlement were in southern New England, with initial settlements on two natural harbors and surrounding land about 15.4 miles apart—the areas around Salem and Boston, north of the previously established Plymouth Colony.

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His actual letter says they sent all the spiece out of the country buying cheap stuff causeing a collapse in domestic earnings capacity that led to the shortage of revenue, the actual letter says , lack of money.

Tobacco was introduced to Jamestown in 1610 by John Rolfe, and was grown in Virginia by the Virginian farmers. In the year 1644 however, Native Americans attacked the tobacco farmers, and John Winthrop, the Masschusetts Bay colony's governer, thought this was a sign of God, since Virginia previously expelled several Puritan Ministers.

there was a more prosperous economy.

The first dissapeared, when England sent a ship there they found no one left alive.

No, they did not. Witches were only burned in England, not in North America.

During the Salem witch trials nineteen people were executed by hanging, one died in the interrogation.

^^^^This makes it sound like witches were burned a lot in England, when in fact this form of excution was extremely rare for witches and more reserved for Protestants, who where burned by Catholics. The more favored way of dealing with witches in England was beheading, drowning, and breaking on the wheel. Witches were rarely burned at the stake, buried alive, boiled alive, impaled, sawed in two, flayed, drawn and quartered, or disemboweled, as other contemporary criminals were. Other punishments inflicted on convicted witches included mutilating (cutting off of a hand or ear for example), branding, whipping, dunking, locking in the the stocks, jailing, fining, banishing, or selling into slavery.

To improve on this answer. The people that were executed were not witches at all. They were Puritans who had a case of ergot poisoning. Ergot is a fungus that attacks rye. Rye being one of the main crops of these people. The rye was used to make bread a staple of the Puritan diet of that time.

Ergot fungus is the very same fungus that the modern drug LSD comes from. People exposed to high levels of ergot fungus have the same symptoms as a person on LSD... dementia, hallucinations, etc.

Of course during those times, no one knew or had the means to know what was causing people within their community to act the way they were... the most "logical" answer was witchcraft.

To improve all these answers let me first correct them... ergot poising had nothing to do with this the people who were executed were not witches some had only agreed to admit that so that they would be let free. 19 people were hanged 18 were Innocent 1 man was killed during interrogation they were told to pile rocks on top of him he died 2 or 3 days later.

one woman named Lisa said with out being interrogated that she practiced witch craft.

No. Burning was the method of execution for witches on the Continent. In America and the England, witches were hanged.

This latest "answer" is not an improvement, as it is based on opinion and not proven historical fact. Correcting already correct answers.. It is a proven fact that ergot poisoning had everything to do with what people were experiencing in Salem, I actually live very close to Salem, have been there many times, and have heard the history countless times. The ergot was linked to the hallucinations and strange visions people were experiencing. Since they (at the time) had no clue about ergot and its effects on the neurological passages, they thought it was witchcraft and pointed blame at the one person that was "not like them".. but it later spread to blaming people throughout the colony. Ergot poisoning started it all, fear and lack of knowledge finished it with deaths of innocent people.

I believe it was those who were member's of the church.

Social life in Colonial Massachusetts often revolved around church. Church events took up a large part of the colonists' social lives. On Sundays, they also spent time visiting family and friends.

Farmland, woodland, and swampy in some areas