Posted on February 6, 2018
Massachusetts is one of the biggies in our nation's early history:
The first British colony in New England, with the famous 1620 arrival of the "Pilgrims" on the Mayflower (and the later first Thanksgiving)...
Location of one of the worst cases of mass hysteria, the Salem witch trials and wrongful executions...
The center of a movement for independence from Britain, site of the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, and the first battles of the American Revolutionary War at Lexington and Concord...
Home of such Revolutionary heroes as Sam Adams and such Founding Fathers as Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and John Hancock...
Yet it wasn't the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution; instead, it was the sixth, on this date in 1788.
More cool stuff about Massachusetts:
Birthplace of four U.S. presidents: John Adams, John Q. Adams, John F. Kennedy, and George H.W. Bush...
Oldest university in the U.S. (Harvard), the largest endowment of any university (Harvard), and two of the most respected universities in the world (Harvard and MIT)...
Birthplace of basketball and volleyball...
Pretty good for one of the smallest states in the country!
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