Pequot

Essay #1 As the Europeans came to the New World in the 1600s, relationships with Native Americans were unstable in some places and secure in others. In the Chesapeake region, both Virginia and Maryland initially collaborated well with the Native Americans but over time the relationship diminished as wars erupted between the groups. However, in New England the colonists’ connection with the Native Americans varied. During the colonization period, although the Europeans may have been disruptive…

up more land and disrespected native beliefs due to their self-supposed superiority. Starting in the south of New England, Puritanical obstinance in the conversion of others and confidence in their own faith helped to create tensions leading to the Pequot War, and though mostly in the south, the ravages of the fighting coming north still had effect on the Puritans like the destruction and bondage of settlers. After these acts of war and the defeat of the Native American tribes, the Puritans…

Zinn vs Johnson Howard Zinn started out by discussing the expeditions of Columbus and his crew. Columbus’s explorations were the beginning of multiple explorers coming the New World. When Columbus and his crew reached Cuba, Columbus thought it was Asia and spoke extravagantly about it. After many expeditions, they couldn’t find the gold. They brought slaves back to Spain, although, many died in captivity. The Arawaks also died off as time went by due to mutilation, murder and diseases. Columbus…

Towards the end of the unrest, that would become known at the Antinomian controversy, John Winthrop, a founder of Puritan Massachusetts, wrote a letter concerning the exiled dissenter Anne Hutchinson. In his first sentence, he coined the term that hundreds of years later would inspire the works of countless historians. “American Jezebel,” has become synonymous with Anne Hutchinson, a woman in Puritan New England who boldly stood up for her religious beliefs in a society where women were…

Since before the United States was officially formed as a Nation, the citizens have been volunteered or been told to take up arms against oppression and tyranny. Men and women of the United States have been involved in fighting that did not always directly affect American soil but always in some way had an effect on what America stood for and believed in. Those who fought, faced unimaginable dangers and the compensation they would receive has changed throughout the course of time. The…

The colony had become a safe haven for Catholic persecuted in England however; tensions ran high when the Protestant planters began to resent Catholic landlords. In the hopes of protecting the Catholics of the region, Lord Baltimore II signed the Act of Toleration in 1649. The Act would actually put more of a limit on religious freedom as it stipulated the death penalty to those settlers who denied the divinity of Jesus. Georgia - reasons for development- Georgia was developed to serve as a…

Pilgrims were the first group to make to move in Massachusetts. The puritans were a group in England that criticized the Anglican church. The Anglican church is the another name of the church of England. And they got the name Puritan because to purify the church and get rid of things that they felt unnecessary. They also believed that each person could read and interpret the Bible himself. The pilgrims were a small group inside the larger group of puritans. So they were a small part of the…

essential to trade between the Algonquin and the French, which had to be navigated in order for both groups to survive. A second example of Native American people building the middle ground in which they lived comes from the British area, specifically the Pequot War. During this conflict body parts of enemies were exchanged between the British and their Native American allies, and while the practice of taking and displaying body parts from enemies was not solely Native American, they currently…

Pilgrims' arrival, sickness wiped out the majority of the New England Indians called the Wampanoag. Several survivors befriended and assisted the colonists. The alliance between the two ended in 1636 when the Massachusetts Bay Puritans declared war on the Pequot Tribe and Plymouth was in the middle of the…

James Axtell's’ thesis in Beyond 1492 seems to make the argument that Native Americans never wanted to deeply interact with the Europeans, only that they were forced to do so due to the European invasion of their land. He makes the argument Native Americans were often forced to conform or rebel against the Europeans in their own land. Natives often worked together in ways they never had to before, but Europeans still tried to diminish their power, and over time, they eventually do. Axtell…