Coastline--both Plymouth and Boston are located in Massachusetts on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean.
The coastline of Massachusetts is rocky with sand beaches. The coastline provided by cities with a place to set up port making both cities trading posts for the colony and eventually the state. The coast also provided a vital fishing industry which brought income and food supply to Massachusetts.
<span>Lincoln suspended the right of habeas corpus, or the right to be brought before a judge to tell what one is being charged with, in the border states during the beginning of the civil war in order to prevent them from seceding. He considered it necessary for the preservation of the union.</span>
"The Articles of Confederation served as the written document that established the functions of the national government of the United States after it declared independence from Great Britain."
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