Question: In what year did the first settlers move to the state that contains the school where David Maister received his education?

The MIT Blackjack Team was a group of students and ex-students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard Business School, Harvard University, and other leading colleges who used card counting techniques and more sophisticated strategies to beat casinos at blackjack worldwide. The team and its successors operated successfully from 1979 through the beginning of the 21st century. Many other blackjack teams have been formed around the world with the goal of beating the casinos. <SEP> the homestead act of 1862 provided free land to settlers who could claim and "prove-up" 160 acres (0.65 km2) of federal land in the midwest and western united states. montana did not see a large influx of immigrants from this act because 160 acres was usually insufficient to support a family in the arid territory. the first homestead claim under the act in montana was made by david carpenter near helena in 1868. the first claim by a woman was made near warm springs creek by miss gwenllian evans, the daughter of deer lodge montana pioneer, morgan evans. by 1880, there were farms in the more verdant valleys of central and western montana, but few on the eastern plains. <SEP> Massachusetts was first colonized by principally English Europeans in the early 17th century, and became the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the 18th century. Prior to English colonization of the area, it was inhabited by a variety of mainly Algonquian language indigenous tribes. It set precedents but never grew large. A large - scale Puritan migration began in 1630 with the establishment of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and spawned the settlement of other New England colonies. Friction with the natives erupted in the high - casualty King Philip's War in the 1670s. Puritanism was the established religion and was strictly enforced; dissenters were exiled. The first permanent English settlement in New England came in 1620 with the founding of Plymouth Colony by the Pilgrims who sailed on the Mayflower. The Colony clashed with Anglican opponents in England over its religious intolerance and the status of its charter. Most people were farmers. Businessmen established wide - ranging trade links, sending ships to the West Indies and Europe, and sometimes shipping goods in violation of the Navigation Acts. These political and trade issues led to the revocation of the Massachusetts charter in 1684. <SEP> by the early 1850s american settlers began agitating to separate the area north of the columbia river from oregon territory. the agitation resulted in congress creating washington territory. isaac i. stevens served as its first governor. upon his arrival in 1853, stevens designated olympia capital of the new territory. the first territorial legislature convened early in 1854 at the parker and colter store on main street (now capital way) between state street and olympia ave. olympia's daniel bigelow represented thurston county in the first three legislatures. his family home still stands, now known as bigelow house museum, olympia's oldest surviving home. <SEP> David H. Maister (born July 21, 1947) is a former Harvard Business School professor, American writer and expert on business management practices and the management of professional service firms. He is best known for writing "Managing the Professional Service Firm" and co-writing "The Trusted Advisor" with Charles H. Green and Robert M. Galford. Born and raised in London, England, Maister became a citizen of the United States in 2006.