Pequot

Schlosser retells the urban legend, “The Hook”. The urban legend starts off with a girl trying to decide on an outfit for her date while constant reports are being announced on the radio of a wild man who had escaped from the state asylum. The man on the loose was a killer who was being called “Hook Man” because his right arm was replaced with a hook. After picking out an outfit, the girl went out on a date with her boyfriend to a drive-in movie without paying much attention to the reports. The…

according to the New Englanders, because the Native Americans had no legal documentation that followed English guidelines, they had no rights to it. Finally in 1634 disagreements between the Pequots and the English boiled over and in 1636 the English attacked the Pequots. In response to this, the Pequots, with help from the Narragansets, retaliated and destroyed a couple of English settlements which led to another, even harsher attack from the Puritans. This “just” war on the “ungrateful…

As the world grew and civilizations rose, there were those who used brute force, manipulation, and raping of cultures to gain money, power, and complete control of what they so desired. First starting off with the spanish capture of mexico and then the complete takeover of the Native Americans by the new American settlers. The book that will be used to help explain everything will be Juan Gonzalez revised edition of Harvest of Empire:A History of Latinos in America. When the world was young many…

It is no surprise that the British colonies thrived and prospered after migrating to the American Continents. All throughout history, geography has played an eminent role in determining the success in several developing nations. In the duration of the 17th and 18th centuries, it is an irrefutable argument that geography was the preeminent factor in agriculture, trade, and settler expansion in the British colonies in North America. When the colonists first arrived on the North American…

The Protestant Reformation Produces Puritanism Martin Luther started the Protestant Reformation in 1517 when he nailed the 95 Theses on the door of Wittenberg Cathedral. The most basic of Luther’s ideas were … The Bible or scripture was the source of God’s word People were saved by the grace of God (salvation comes as an undeserved gift from God). People are saved by having faith in Christ, not by any “good works” the person could have done. John Calvin preached Calvinism that stressed…

The Puritan experiment by Francis J Bremer. Published in 1976 at the University press of New England. The book is all about the rise and fall of the Puritans in New England. The Puritans faced many challenges that inevitably brought down their religion.The main theme of the book is about the rise and fall of the early puritans in colonial era. The practice of the Puritans are very similar to today's modern Christian religions. They believed that Grace was selected and not earned through…

as a disgrace, a sign that God had turned away from someone, that they were not saved (D3). This led to New England hosting a deeply passionate people, though sometimes that passion was misplaced. The Pequot wars, for instance, which occurred from about 1634 to 1638 and virtually destroyed the Pequot people, were conducted in the name of God (D4). Because of their devotion to religion, at least in the early days of the New England colonies, the colonists shared a common purpose, binding them…

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…

The Native American tribes shared many similarities. The Indian name came from the fact that explorers mistook them for Indians after they thought they had sailed to India instead of America. Many of them became sick because they were not used to the diseases that the new people brought with them. However, they prevailed through this as they still exist today. Although many tribes were different, they resembled each other in their religions, homes, and their food. Many tribes showed a likeness…

Even before the Puritans made their voyage to the “New World” or what we know it as North America, they had to deal with the hardships that are hardly talked about when it comes to the “Puritan Pilgrimage”. As the dictionary of Merriam-Webster states “The Puritans were a group religious members who were apart of a Protestant group, these members follow strict rules and believe that pleasure is wrong” In the early years of 1608, the town of Scrooby which had a group of Puritan separatists,…