American democracy started out with 13 original colonies and a political vision by a group called ... in the town of ...

Nostalgia for a ‘Christian America’ overlooks the realities of religion in the founding era — which included taxes, jail time, exile and even public hangings for anyone who defied state-run churches.

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This incident occurred after protests and riots erupted over the Townshend acts, which are tariffs placed upon manufactured ...

Before America was its own country, it was comprised of 13 Colonies established by the Brits: New Hampshire, Massachusetts, ...

These laws closed the busy port of Boston, put Massachusetts under military rule, and banned public meetings. In response, 12 of the 13 colonies sent representatives to a Continental Congress in ...

While some states are still affordable, there are also some places where you might have to spend almost all of your salary ...

During the colonial era of the original 13 colonies (later states ... (John Adams, Address to the Massachusetts Militia, ...

[7] Some colonies were very strict in their use of the death penalty, while others were less so. In Massachusetts Bay ... number of capital offenses from thirteen to two. Virginia and Kentucky ...

Al Jazeera looks at the US economy, demographics, geography and other indicators ahead of the November 5 elections.

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Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... This is an important reason why former colonies that were once rich are now poor and vice versa." ...