Massachussets and Rel. w/ Eng.

The appointment of William Laud, by Charles I, as the Bishop of Wells in 1626 and the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1633 changed the relationship between the Puritans and the hierarchy of the Church of England forever. Laud was intolerant to the Puritan religion and began the drive to rid England of the religion. The re-emerging of the Catholics and their rituals also worried the Puritans. Before the appointment of Laud, the Puritans had no intentions of disassociating themselves from the Church of England. They wanted only to purity it, to purge from it th

Despite all of Massachusetts problems and disagreements with England over governing and laws, Massachusetts did provide very well financially for her Mother Country. Massachusetts would become strongly noted for its fishing and whaling industry and its shipbuilding.

These changes would go uncontested until 1632, when the taxes executed by the governor were being protested because the colonists argued that under the charter the governors had no right to tax. Unwillingly, Winthrop and his assistants made changes. Each town in the colony would choose their own officers, distribute their own land, and have the power to send two deputies to the General Court each year to discuss all matters relevant to the colony. All these changes were however limited to freemen who were full members of the church.

By 1650 the colonies had confirmed their value to England, and Mother Country began to take control of her colonies by implementing an economic policy known as mercantilism. England began to take control of her colonies by implementing an economic policy known as mercantilism. To execute this policy, England began to pass legislation to ensure that it collect more trade benefits from its colonial possessions. From 1660 to 1696, Parliament enacted a series of navigation and trade acts, such as the Navigation Acts, the Woolens Act, and the Hat Act, designed to improve English prosperity by increasing regulation of colonial trade. The new acts required that goods going into and out of the colonies be shipped in English or colonial ships, and that certain articles could go only to England. Other measures specified that non-English manufactured goods should first land in England, where shippers had to pay duties and merchant commissions, before the goods were sent to the colonies.

From the beginning stages of development, Massachusetts had a diverse economy. The first comers to Massachusetts engaged in agriculture, but agriculture was not an encouraging business in the cold climate and rocky soil. Farms were, however, not absent from the Massachusetts landscape. A farm in Massachusetts ranged from between fifty to one hundred acres to three hundred acres. A farmer in Massachusetts would only harvest about five to ten acres a year. The farms of Massachusetts were predominantly subsistent farms, though they did grow Indian corn and wheat. Despite minor agricultural achievements, Massachusetts did however produce enough of these crops each year that the excess corn and wheat were shipped to the British West Indies to feed the slaves.

During the 1640’s John Winthrop Jr. made the first attempt in the smelting of iron in Massachusetts, and he set up an ironworks in Saugus. The industry, however, did not become established until the second decade

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