The Intolerant Acts....they were a series of laws passed by Britain. The acts were met by outrage and was one of the most important events leading up to the American Revolution. Hope this helped!
The General Court of Massachusetts was established in 1630 when the MA Bay Colony obtained a new charter from the King.
The king eventually granted New Hampshire a separate charter.
The Massachusetts Bay Colony did not intend to recognize the authority of King Charles II over their governance leading him to revoke their charter. They had been operating without any administration from England for nearly ten years prior to the English Restoration.
The charter the both the Pilgrims and the Puritans signed was The Mayflower Compact
Well it wasn't a state back then, but Massachusetts Bay Colony, now of course the state of Massachusetts.
Massachusetts was governed by a royal charter. The land of the colony was granted by the king of England. It was to be governed according to English law.
the Massachusetts Bay company
Massachusetts Bay Company
In 1629, the Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay in New England, primarily made up of Puritan members, obtained a royal charter from King Charles I to establish the Massachusetts Bay colony in America.
Massachusetts Bay
The charter of 1606 was issued by King James I to the Virginia Company.
The Massachusetts Charter was a document that granted rights to the people of Massachusetts Bay Colony from the English government. A sort of colonial constitution. All the 13 colonies has one.