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Massachusetts was among the first states to respond to President Lincoln's call for troops. Massachusetts was the first state to recruit, train, and arm a Black regiment with White officers, the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. [78] The Robert Gould Shaw Memorial in Boston Common contains a relief depicting the 54th regiment. [79]
Twenty-one states have the distinction of being the birthplace of a president. One president's birth state is in dispute; North and South Carolina (British colonies at the time) both lay claim to Andrew Jackson, who was born in 1767 in the Waxhaw region along their common border. Jackson himself considered South Carolina his birth state.
Andrew Card (born 1947) – Massachusetts state legislator, U.S. Secretary of Transportation, White House Chief of Staff; P.J. Crowley (born 1951) – Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs under President Obama; Bill de Blasio (born 1961) – 109th mayor of New York City (raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Clairo performs at Radio City Music Hall on February 24, 2022 in New York City. Claire Elizabeth Cottrill, better known as her stage name Clairo, was raised in Carlisle after being born in Georgia.
Massachusetts was the first state in North America to require municipalities to appoint a teacher or establish a grammar school with the passage of the Massachusetts Education Law of 1647, [250] and 19th century reforms pushed by Horace Mann laid much of the groundwork for contemporary universal public education [251] [252] which was ...
English settlers adopted the term Massachusett for the name for the people, language, and ultimately as the name of their colony which became the American state of Massachusetts. John Smith first published the term Massachusett in 1616. [3] Narragansett people called the tribe Massachêuck. [3]
New England is the oldest clearly defined region of the United States, being settled more than 150 years before the American Revolution.The first colony in New England was Plymouth Colony, established in 1620 by the Puritan Pilgrims who were fleeing religious persecution in England.
It was Carver who had chartered the Mayflower and his is the first signature on the Mayflower Compact, being the most respected and affluent member of the group. The Mayflower Compact is considered to be one of the seeds of American democracy, and historians have called it the world's first written constitution. [46] [47] [48]: 90–91 [49]