People in New England were able to use water power to run various mills because of the availability of woods and water. Labor was expensive in the colonies as they brought from England and Africa via crossing the Atlantic Ocean. With the introducing of the mills in New England, they replaced the human and animals. Water-powered mills eventually paved the way for showing the benefits of machinery and mechanical power. By 1700 there were about 70 water-powered mills in New England.
The Boston Massacre was a terrorist bombing in the 2000s involving two brothers in the name of ISIS while the Boston Tea Party was a planned protest during the Revolutionary War era to protest British taxing imported goods.