massachusetts facts Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/massachusetts-facts Fri, 20 May 2016 16:54:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Massachusetts http://toursmaps.com/massachusetts.html http://toursmaps.com/massachusetts.html#respond Mon, 23 May 2016 07:25:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=204432 Damian Nemirovsky CHRONOLOGY 1890s The Boston Independence Club Cuba-Borinquen advocates for Puerto Rican and Cuban independence. 1898 Massachusetts loses 292 men in the Spanish-American War. 1917 Congress naturalizes all Puerto Ricans through the Jones-Shafroth Act, facilitating the recruitment of individuals from the island by manufacturers and agriculturalists in Massachusetts. 1940s Puerto Rican workers begin migrating to Massachusetts. 1950s Puerto Rican agricultural workers begin staying year-round. Puerto Rican industrial workers greatly increase the Massachusetts Latino population. 1954 Eighteen hundred Puerto Rican farmworkers are recruited to work in Massachusetts. 1960s Economic changes create large demand for Latino industrial workers in some areas,

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