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The first slave was in the early 1624 by a man names Samuel Maverick.
In 1638 several Native prisoners were taken during the Pequot war and traded for African slaves in the West Indian.

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The Massachusetts colonial flag was red with 4 small squares. You can't really see it but there is a red cross. In one of the squares it had a pine tree. The flag was first appeared in 1686 in a drawing done by a young British officer named John Graydon.

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The punishment in Massachusetts was pretty Cuvier. Even though they were a self-governing colony they still had laws. Puritan law was extremely strict; men and women were severely punished for a variety of crimes. Even a child could be put to death for cursing his parents.

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The Puritans were allowed to make their own laws. At the center of each Puritan village was a meeting house. At the meeting house, the men of the village met to make the laws and settle the problems of the community. The Puritans wanted every child to read the bible. So they passed a law requiring parents to teach their children to read.

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The Puritans were allowed to make their own laws. At the center of each Puritan village was a meeting house. At the meeting house, the men of the village met to make the laws and settle the problems of the community. The Puritans wanted every child to read the bible. So they passed a law requiring parents to teach their children to read.

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The women's were determined by their wealth, religious, and statues. So, the early women colonists were expected to help the men in a variety tasks in order to survive. Later on, the women colonists took on the traditional women roles, like house and raising the children

The children began working as early as the age of four or five. Small children helped by weeding flax plants. The work of girls was closely related to the home and the work of her mother. Girls learned to sew, knead bread, and took care of the younger kids. Boys worked mostly outdoors by way of caring for animals and crops. Boys also used jackknives to carve wood into spoons, bowls, and breadboards. They were also required to read the bible and write.

The men did most of the heavy work. They built the ships, helped out with tools and weapons, and traded lumber as the economy.

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The relationship with the Native Americans and the Europeans wasn't bad at all. The Europeans brought a lot of diseases that the Native Americans had no immunity against them. When the Puritans began to arrive in the New World, their religion affected their attitudes toward Native Americans. The Native Americans were good farmers and grew different things like squash, pumpkins, and beans in the same fields. With all the little the Native Americans had, they shared as much as they could toward the Europeans. 

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The relationship with the Native Americans and the Europeans wasn't bad at all. The Europeans brought a lot of diseases that the Native Americans had no immunity against them. When the Puritans began to arrive in the New World, their religion affected their attitudes toward Native Americans. The Native Americans were good farmers and grew different things like squash, pumpkins, and beans in the same fields. With all the little the Native Americans had, they shared as much as they could toward the Europeans. 

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The Massachusetts Bay Colony was one of the New England Colonies.

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The Massachusetts Bay Colony was one of the New England Colonies.

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The government in Massachusetts was self-governing. The government was a group of puritans led by the leader John Winthrop.

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Puritans seeking escape from religious persecutions

In 1630 a group of people called Puritans left England for North America. The settlement they started in America was called the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Massachusetts Bay Colony was settled in 1630 by a group of about 1,000 Puritan refugees from England.

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The economy in Massachusetts is crops, livestock (farm animals sheep, chicken, cow, and pigs) farming, lumber, and building ships.

The Massachusetts Bay Company founded and successfully settled the colony in 1628. Massachusetts had many trees and lakes, which is why the initial economy depended on the shipbuilding, fishing, fur, and lumber trades.

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The climate in Massachusetts has harsh winters and warm summers.

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Sandy coast with hilly geography, mountains covered in trees, rivers and  poor soil. The poor soil made it difficult for the colonists to farm.

Two of the main rivers in Massachusetts were the Bay river and the Charles river.

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Massachusetts founder was John Winthrop before was William Bradford

Massachusetts Bay Colony. Massachusetts Bay Colony, one of the original English settlements in present-day Massachusetts, settled in 1630 by a group of about 1,000 Puritan refugees from England under, John Winthrop.

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Religion:               Religion was very important in England, they practiced Puritan. Puritan's wanted to "purify" the Church by doing services. Some of the Puritans wanted to separate from the church   

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Religion:               Religion was very important in England, they practiced Puritan. Puritan's wanted to "purify" the Church by doing services. Some of the Puritans wanted to separate from the church   

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The Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded by the Puritans, a religious group who migrated to the New World seeking to create a model religious community. The Puritans believed that the Anglican Church needed to be purified of the influences of Catholicism.