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Handout
University of Massachusetts

University of Massachusetts: History of Migration and Immigration Laws in the Us

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a brief history of the migration and immigration laws starting in 1790, with brief descriptions of each law. Includes court decisions.
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Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: New England Colonies: Massachusetts Bay the City on the Hill

For Students 5th - 8th
Learn a little about Puritan beliefs and see the importance of religion and the clergy in Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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Website
Massachusetts Historical Society

Masshist: Massachusetts Historical Society

For Students 9th - 10th
Site devoted to teaching the history of the state of Masssachusetts.
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Handout
The History Cat

The History Cat: The Constitutional Convention: Creating the Constitution

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains why the Articles of Confederation were not strong enough to hold the country together. One result was a farmers' rebellion in Massachusetts led by Daniel Shays, which was precipitated by a debt crisis that caused many farmers to...
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Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Shays' Rebellion

For Students 5th - 8th
Read about the Massachusetts government's handling of the crushing debt felt by the farmers in western Massachusetts and the resulting rebellion by those farmers.
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Website
Digital History

Digital History: Dimensions of Change in Colonial New England

For Students 9th - 10th
Dissension in Massachusetts Bay Colony resulted in the formation of other New England colonies. Read about their formations, and the impact on the Native Americans in the area.
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Primary
History Tools

History Tools: Winthrop Defends Right of Puritans to Settle on Indian Land [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Primary source material with modernized spellings. Passage written by John Winthrop defending the right of Puritans to settle in Massachusetts Bay territory which was already occupied by Native Americans, 1629.
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eBook
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: New England Colonies: Reaching to Connecticut

For Students 5th - 8th
Read about how the colony of Connecticut grew from an expansion of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. See how Thomas Hooker's idea of government resulted in a model of colonial charters, and find out how two very different settlements in...
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Activity
University of Groningen

American History: Essays: The Intolerable Acts

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource gives a comprehensive account of the Intolerable Acts, why they were passed, colonists' reactions, and particulars surrounding the Massachusetts Government Act and other Coercive Acts with text links and references.
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Article
Encyclopedia Britannica

Encyclopedia Britannica: 300 Women Who Changed History: Anne Hutchinson

For Students 9th - 10th
Encyclopedia Britannica provides a biography of Anne Hutchinson (1591-1643), the woman expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for "Traducing the ministers," of the Puritan Colony. She and other religious dissenters founded Rhode Island.
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Primary
Other

Primary Research Through the History of Beverly

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
At Beverly High School in Massachusetts, students learn history through their own primary research on local history topics. This article and links from it explain how it's done.
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Handout
The History Cat

The History Cat: History of Colonial America: The Thirteen Colonies

For Students 9th - 10th
Compares life in the three regions of the thirteen British colonies - the New England colonies (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut), the Middle Colonies (New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey), and the...
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Lesson Plan
University of California

History Project: The Antinomian Controversy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using ten primary source documents, high school students will write a 2 1/2 page interpretive history of Puritan Society focusing on the antinomian controversy in Massachusetts.
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Handout
University of Groningen

American History: Biographies: George Herbert Walker Bush (1924 )

For Students 9th - 10th
America's 41st President, George Bush, was born on June 12, 1924, in Milton, Massachusetts, into a wealthy family as George Herbert Walker Bush.
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Handout
University of Groningen

American History: Biographies: John Fitzgerald Kennedy

For Students 9th - 10th
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29th 1917 at Brookline (Massachusetts). His father Joseph Kennedy was an ambitious politician, who became from son of a pubkeeper to a millionaire. He married the daughter of the mayor of Boston,...
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Handout
University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Colonization

For Students 9th - 10th
For a variety of reasons, those who came to settle the early colonies sought a new homeland. Puritans, for example, established several settlements in Massachusetts. These English colonists were a pious, self-disciplined people who...
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Website
Digital History

Digital History: Regional Contrasts

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the populations of the New England colonies as compared to the Southern colonies in the 1600s. See how the numbers of Native Americans decreased dramatically particularly in Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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Handout
University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Colonial Economy

For Students 9th - 10th
Whatever early colonial prosperity there was resulted from trapping and trading in furs. In addition, the fishing industry was a primary source of wealth in Massachusetts. But throughout the colonies, people relied primarily on small...
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Website
Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: Black List Project: Governor Deval Patrick

For Students 9th - 10th
Making history as the first African American governor of Massachusetts, dip into a biography featuring Governor Deval Patrick.
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Handout
University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Settlers, Slaves and Servants

For Students 9th - 10th
Men and women with little active interest in a new life in America were often induced to make the move to the New World by the skillful persuasion of promoters. William Penn, for example, publicized the opportunities awaiting newcomers...
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Primary
University of Groningen

American History: Documents: New England Articles of Confederation 1643

For Students 9th - 10th
View the complete text of the New England Articles of Confederation 1643, an alliance of the English colonies of Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven.
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Activity
Other

Do History: Martha Ballard's Diary Online

For Students 9th - 10th
This site invites viewers "to piece together the life and world of an "ordinary" person from the past." The site boasts thousands of original documents that include diaries, maps, letters, and court records of a midwife from...
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Website
Other

Mass Moments

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about important historical moments in the history of Massachusetts.
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Website
Open Door Team

Open Door Web Site: Massachusetts

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the colony the Puritans made, the Massachusetts Bay Colony, a place Puritans could practice their own religion freely.

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