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Well-known battles that took place in the Massachusetts Colony include the Battle of Lexington, and the Battle of Concord.

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salem Massachusetts.

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Massachusetts Bay was found in 1630.

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John Winthrop.

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It had trees, rivers, but rocky dried up soil so it was hard to farm and grow crops.

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Summers were mild and short,  winters were long and cold.

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The Puritans, who believed the Church of England was too hierarchical came to Massachusetts for religious freedom.

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The Puritans named their colony after a local Indian tribe whose name means "a large hill place."

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Settlers in the Massachusetts Bay colony made money by shipbuilding, trading fur and fishing.

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When the pilgrims first arrived in 1620 it was the local wampanoag Indians who taught them how to plant crops.

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blacksmiths, coopers, shoemakers, weaving wool, manual workers, servants, apprentices, and sailors.

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Between 1675 and 1677 the Indians and the colonists fought a bloody battle called King Philip's War.

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beans, corn, squash, pumpkins, wheat, and rye.

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The Massachusetts Colony became the sixth U.S. state on February 6th, 1788 when it ratified the Constitution.

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-Mashpee.
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Hull, Massachusetts, settled by Plymouth Colony in 1622, taken over by Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630, originally named Nantasket.

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Major Cities: Boston, Quincy, Plymouth, Salem, Lexington, Concord.

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had very bad soil for planting crops and people could hardly even farm. Yet Salem was a very important part of Massachusetts Bay because, it is where the Puritans first landed and began to settle their new lives.

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The relationships between the American Indians and the Puritans were mostly bad because, when the Puritans first met the American Indians they viewed them as cruel and uncivilized people. Most Puritans even feared death by the American Indians but the Puritans brought over deceases that American Indians had no control against. Causing a large amount of death and suffering almost ninety percent of American Indians had died during the remainder of the 17th century.

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In 1630 when it was found it was named Boston after Boston in England. Boston has warm summers and cold snowy winters,