Eighteenth-Century Boston
Though the rate of immigration to Massachusetts lagged behind that of other colonies, its population grew sixfold in the eighteenth century, mainly from natural increase. As the population increased, …
Category: History
Boston Massacre
The incident known as the Boston Massacre occurred on the bitterly cold night of March 5, 1770. It was the culmination of eighteen months fraught with tension between British …
Borderlands, Spanish
Serious consideration of the Spanish borderlands as a legitimate field of history was inaugurated by Herbert Bolton, who, in 1921, published the landmark study The Spanish Borderlands: A Chronicle …
Boston Port Bill
The Boston Port Bill was the first in a series of legislative measures known as the Coercive Acts or Intolerable Acts. Passed in 1774 by the British Parliament in …
Board of Trade
Established by King William III in 1696, the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations (more commonly known as the Board of Trade) were charged with promoting commerce in the …
Columbian Exchange
Historian Alfred W. Crosby coined the phrase Columbian Exchange in 1972 to describe the significant biological consequences of the meeting of Europe and the Americas in the 1490s and …