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John Winthrop changed Shawmut to Boston.
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Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts.
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Ann Hutchinson was banished from Massashuetts.
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Salem Witch Trials helped make a democratic nation.
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Boston grew, and towns were created around it. Trade also increased. This was throughout the century.
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Crown increased taxes on the colonies throughout the 1730's.
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Payed taxes on every piece of paper they used. Money collected was helped to pay costs of defending and protecting the American Frontier.
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Placed taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea.
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The soldiers fired first and three men were killed instantly.
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Government passed Tea Act to increase sales of the East India tea company. If there was no tax on tea, then colonists would want to buy it.
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As much as 7, 000 people filled the docks where ships were docked filled with tea.
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British troops came to Lexington and Concord to arrest Samuel Adams and John Hancock. Paul Revere and Williams Dawes warned the colonists about the troops arriving.
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In the 1840"s the first non- English immagrants came from Ireland. Nearly two milion in that decade.
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This was throughout the late 19th century. Boston became a manufacturer of a variety of goods and products for the civil war.
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Mills became obsolete. Businesses closed and reopened in the south. This took place during the Great Depression. When the war started again, people started to work again.
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fishing and farming declined. Boston was starting with computer and high- tech industries. This was throughout the 1950's.
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In March of 2003, the Freedom Tunnel and Bunker Hill Bridge were finished and opened.
