Covenant” was established in 1662 that offered the second generation of colonists that were unwilling to convert a partial membership to the church. The second generation were able to baptize their children but couldn’t vote at church or participate in communion. King Philip’s War in 1676 between Natives and Puritans resulted in destruction of the Wampanoag Indians who were constantly harassed by the Puritans who also threatened their land. The Salem Witch trials of 1692 blamed social outcast…
Clash with the Chesapeake - When they first arrived, they encoutered the chieftain Powhatan who asserted supremacy of the James river, he considered the settleres as future allies so didn't do much but tensions were still high. Once Lord De La Warr arrived he placed "irish tactics" against the indians basically rainding villages, burning houses, doing bad stuff to them. The marriage of Pocahontas to John rolfe ended this first anglo-powhatan war. But eventually the Indians fought back killing…
1 The Question of Sabon Gari Phenomenon in Katsina Metropolis, 1903-2011 Samuel Wycliff Department of History, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria-Nigeria samuelwycliff@yahoo.ca and samwycliff@gmail.com 08060510055, 08053430606 Abstract The history of Sabon Gari system in Northern Nigeria has received attention from scholars, yet the absence of such settlements in some of the Northern cities and towns has not been addressed. This paper examined the reasons for its absence in Katsina metropolis unlike…
Economic interest groups are ubiquitous and the most prominent in all countries. There are literally thousands of them with offices in national capitals from London to Ottawa to New Delhi to Canberra. There are several different kinds of economic interests: business groups (e.g., the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, the Confederation of British Industry, and the Nestlé Corporation, headquartered in Switzerland and with operations throughout the world), labour groups (e.g., IG Metall…