Massachusetts Governors
Significant Structures in Massachusetts
Massachusetts Colleges
Massachusetts Cities/Towns
Slavery in Massachusetts
100
Who is Governor Deval Patrick
Which Massachusetts Governor graduated Harvard Law School in 1978?
100
What is the Boston Garden
Which Massachusetts structure was designed by boxing promoter Tex Rickard and opened on November 17, 1928?
100
What is Bay State College?
Which Boston area state college opened in 1955 to primarily serve the airline industry?
100
Lawrence, MA
Which city became infamous for its Bread and Roses Strike of 1912 (also known as the Lawrence Textile Strike.) One of the most important labor actions in American History?
100
Pequot War
During which war in 1638 were natives taken to the West Indies and exchanged for African slaves?
200
Who is Governor Edward Joseph King
Which Massachussets Demoratic Governor played proffesional football with the Buffalo Bills and Baltimore Colts from 1948 to 1951.
200
Where is Bunker Hill Monument
This structure stands on the grounds where the first major conflict between British and Patriot forces in the first American Revolutionary War?
200
What is Boston College
Which college is a privat Jesuit Catholic research University and this school's name refelects it's early history as a liberal arts college and prepretory school?
200
Leominister
Which city is the second largest in Worester County?
200
Walker v. Jenninson, and Commenweath v. Jenninson
Which Massachusetts Supreme Court cases were the foundation for ending slavery in Massachusetts on constitutional grounds?
300
Who is Governor Maurice Tobin
Which Massachusetts Governor served from 1945-1947 and has a famous Boston area bridge named after him?
300
What is Fanuel Hall
Located between the waterfront and today's Government Center in Boston, this structure has been the market place and meeting hall since 1743?
300
What is Cambridge College?
Which college had its beginings as an innovative graduate program created by Eileen Moran Brown and Joan Goldsmith?
300
New Bedford
Which city was nicknamed "The Whaling City" in the 19th century because of its significant ports in the whaling industry?
300
1641
What year did Massachusetts pass its Body of Liberties Law, which gave legal sanction to certain kinds of slavery?
400
Who is Governor Jane Maria Swift
Which Massachusetts Governor became the youngest female to be elected a seat in the Massachusetts state Senate?
400
What is the Old State House
Built in 1713, it was the seat of the Massachusetts General Court until 1798?
400
What is Emmanual College
Which college was founded by the sisters of Notre Dame de Namur as the first women's Catholic college in New England?
400
Somerville
Which city was home to one of the first hostile acts of the American Revolutionary War? The theft of colonial gunpowder by British solders and the massive popular reaction that ensued, are considered to be a turning point in the events leading up to the was.
400
Rhode Island and Connecticut
What two New England states were buying slaves from Masschusetts in 1680?
500
Who is John Henry Clifford
Who was the 22nd Governor of Massachusetts?
500
What is the Paul Revere House
This house is Boston's oldest surviving house (1680)
500
Tufts University
Which college played host to one of the earliest professors Ames Dolbear, who installed the first connected telephone that Alexanader Bell would later patent?
500
Taunton
Which town is considered one the smallest towns in the U.S. and was founded in 1637 by members of the Plymouth Colony?
500
1638
When was the first account of confirmed slavery in Massachusetts?