Narragansett Bay

So during the 1614 peaceful period of time, between the colonists and the Algonquian tribes. John Rolfe and Pocahontas, who was captured and converted to Christianity had wed. Rolfe had brought back seeds from his voyage from the West Indies and began the cash crop product of Tabacco back to the colony. In 1617, when Pocahontas died on her way back to England, and her father Powhatan died in 1618. Under Powhatan’s successor, Opechankeno, the Algonquians became more and more angry about the…

1687 a very one-sided battle between a group of Puritans from the Massachusetts Bay Colony and members of a large Pequot village called Fort Mystic took place late at night. In this battle, the Puritans set fire to the Pequot village, killing most of the people in the village, including tribe leaders, women and children. Led by Major John Mason and Captain John Underhill, a mix of Puritans, Mohegans and Narragansetts, attacked the Pequot village at around 2 a.m. killed Pequot warriors with…

Royal Colony: Was a type of colony that was under the jurisdiction of the crown of a royal country like England, France and Spain. In England’s case, a royal governor who carried out the instructions of the crown, which weren’t exactly commands to the governor, more like strong suggestions, ruled each of these types of colonies. The significance of the royal colony is that it brought the idea of micromanaging countries. This would later on make the United States have governors to govern their…

year conflict followed by a short period of peace. Powhatan Indians killed 347 settlers throughout the Virginia colony during the first Powhatan War which was from 1622-1644. Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies had an alliance together along with some other Native American tribes the Narragansett and Mohegan. This alliance was to help protect them from other Native American…

While the amount of statistics is fairly slim, there is general consensus that most Americans cannot in most cases list all fifty states. We can go even further by assuming that the smaller the state or the less “relevant” it is in national affairs, the lesser the chances are that people will know it. Rhode Island is such a state. It is small geographically, unrepresentative of the national racial diversity we observe here in the United States, and has an economy which barely gives the state any…

Comparison of the New England and Southern Colonies The colonies were first developed in the 1600’s, however the New England colonies and Southern Colonies were very different despite them both having similar reasons for coming to the new world. The southern colonies, consisting of Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia, were centered on making money and agriculture, whereas the New England colonies, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, were centered on…

Winthrop’s “A Model of a Christian Charity” his entry dated January 11th 1636, describes someone 's faith as an infection, “The reason was because he has drawn above twenty persons to his opinion and they were intended to erect a plantation about the Narragansett Bay, from where the infection would easily spread into these churches (the people being many of them much taken with apprehension of Godliness”. This passage explains how someone is trying to teach his religious opinion and…

You arrive to Point Judith with your large beach bag filled with a bathing suit, sunscreen, a change of clothes, a sandwich or two, a few bottles of water and you’re ready to go. You parade up to the stand where you have to make a decision: traditional or hi-speed? With traditional it’s only twenty two dollars for a round trip, while hi-speed is thirty five dollars. You have to make a decision fast because the next ferry leaves in five minutes and you don’t want to miss it because then you’ll…

programs from 2:45 to 6pm each afternoon. Dozens of partnering organizations were asked to develop programs aligned with schools’ instructional calendar. The initiative brought together a huge variety of participants. Students have been taken out on Narragansett Bay to learn about environmental efforts, and to the Humane Society to take care of animals. Arts and community-based projects have been…

Within the delicate brushstrokes of the artist lies an image of vitality and beauty, comprising the portrait of one young and misguided individual. Driven by his desire to fulfill his lustful temptations, he evolves, the man in the frame, into an individual so vile one cannot stand near without inhaling his moral corruption. Physically, the man of the portrait, Dorian Gray, as having sold his soul to retain his current health and beauty, remains ageless and pristine as he continues in the…