History of Boston |
The staff history too consists from incongruous at first sight components. On November, 21st, 1620 the ship "Мейфлауэр" has moored to Cape Cod (cape of the Cod) with one hundred puritans exhausted with three-monthly voyage. Before definitive disembarkation in Plymouth (the harbour on cape of the Cod has appeared inconvenient) these severe, dressed from a head to feet in black people have signed the well-known Mejflauersky Agreement which is considered the first American constitution. In a basis of this fatal document the idea of the civil consent - submission to an ox of the majority has laid down. And in 150 years свободолюбие and rebelliousness of descendants of puritans have helped America to become independent. Any American schoolboy will tell about the Boston tea drinking of 1773 today. Having changed clothes as Indians, 50 бостонцев have made the way on the ships of the East Indian company and have thrown out in ocean of hundred boxes of expensive tea as a sign of the protest against an unprofitable tax policy for colonies and restrictions on trade with other countries. It was the first certificate of disobedience to Englishmen after which war for independence has begun. By the way, the motto of the State of Massachusetts: "With a sword in hands we thirst the world, but only the world in the shadow of freedom" - too for an example some a paradoxical combination of the purposes and means to their achievement.
In Massachusetts in due time have found a haven not only puritans, but also representatives of even more ascetic religious sect - "shakers". They divided property and lived in abstention from carnal joys. After the black slaves which have escaped from southern states here hid. In 1832 in Boston there was an organised Society first in America Against Slavery, and by means of secret system of houses and transshipment points of fluent slaves forwarded to Canada. Modern inhabitants of Massachusetts, despite Puritan roots and новоанглийскую restraint, too are tolerant and cosmopolitan. The resort place Провинстаун located nearby to Boston, is considered one of the centres of the American gay culture. During a "high" season (from April till October) when the population increases from "winter" 3,5 thousand people to 40 thousand, among colourful разноязыкой crowds to meet heterosexual pair - the big rarity.
The staff history too consists from incongruous at first sight components. On November, 21st, 1620 the ship "Мейфлауэр" has moored to Cape Cod (cape of the Cod) with one hundred puritans exhausted with three-monthly voyage. Before definitive disembarkation in Plymouth (the harbour on cape of the Cod has appeared inconvenient) these severe, dressed from a head to feet in black people have signed the well-known Mejflauersky Agreement which is considered the first American constitution. In a basis of this fatal document the idea of the civil consent - submission to an ox of the majority has laid down. And in 150 years свободолюбие and rebelliousness of descendants of puritans have helped America to become independent.
Any American schoolboy will tell about the Boston tea drinking of 1773 today. Having changed clothes as Indians, 50 бостонцев have made the way on the ships of the East Indian company and have thrown out in ocean of hundred boxes of expensive tea as a sign of the protest against an unprofitable tax policy for colonies and restrictions on trade with other countries. It was the first certificate of disobedience to Englishmen after which war for independence has begun. By the way, the motto of the State of Massachusetts: "With a sword in hands we thirst the world, but only the world in the shadow of freedom" - too for an example some a paradoxical combination of the purposes and means to their achievement.
