 Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Henry David Thoreau naRalph Waldo Emerson vakaita mipiro mikuru kukufunga kweAmerica. Mitezo yesangano reTranscendentalism, ivo vakasimbisa ukoshi hwenyika yomuzvarirwo nemirangariro kuvanhu. Kunyange zvazvo kushorwa kukuru kwekurambidzwa kwehuranda kwaivapo pakutanga muMassachusetts, zvichikonzera mhirizhonga inopesana nekurambidzwa kwehuranda pakati pa1835 na1837, kushorwa kwehuranda kwakakura zvishoma nezvishoma mumakumi emakore mashoma akatevera. Murwi akakurumbira wokurambidza basa rokurambidzwa kwairambidzwa John Brown akatamira kuguta raiva nepfungwa dzokufambira mberi reSpringfield muna 1846. Ikoko ndiko kwakatanga Brown kuva mutsigiri anopikisa uranda. MuSpringfield neBoston, Brown akasangana nehukama hwaizomukurudzira, Frederick Douglass naSojourner Truth muSpringfield, uye gare gare vakabhadhara zvaaiedza, Simon Sanborn naAmos Adams Lawrence muBoston, muBleeding Kansas uye kurwisa kwaJohn Brown paHarpers Ferry. Muna 1850, Brown akatanga sangano rake rekutanga rinorwisa uranda The League of the Gileadites muSpringfield, kuchengetedza varanda vakapukunyuka kubva kuFugitive Slave Act ya1850. Massachusetts yakanga iri nzvimbo yakasimba yokurambidza mutemo wokurambidza kupondwa kwehurumende zvikurukuru maguta anofambira mberi eBoston neSpringfield uye yakabetsera kumabasa akazotevera ehurumende mukati meHondo yeVanhu. Massachusetts yakanga iri pakati penyika dzokutanga kupindura kudana kwaPurezidhendi Lincoln kwokuunza mauto. Massachusetts ndiyo yakanga iri nyika yokutanga kunyoresa, kurovedza, uye kushongedza chikwata chevatema nevakuru vakuru vechichena, 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry. Chiyeuchidzo chaRobert Gould Shaw muBoston Common chine mufananidzo unoratidza 54th regiment. Zvizhinji zvezvombo zveMubatanidzwa zveHondo yeVanhu zvakagadzirwa muSpringfield, paSpringfield Armory. 