Wampanoag

In the early years of the United States' formation, the country was rooted in the original thirteen colonies. Through years of expansion, the United States grew into the country that we know today. Without the migration movements like the Separationist pilgrims' voyage to America, the founding of the original thirteen colonies, and the westward migration in the 1800s for gold, development, and prosperity, the country would not be the country it is today. The British colonization of the 1600s and…

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 and women of being witches, responsible for the mysterious death of a Reverend’s daughter. The hysteria…

From when the first humans crossed over to North America to the end of the War of 1812, nothing has remained constant in the region that would one day come to be known as the United States of America. What drives these changes varies with human motivation. Some come from the desire for conquest and expansion, but others spawn from religious beliefs. But trade and the desire for wealth has remained a nearly constant factor in most major changes. While imperialism and religion both had large…

In, Lies my Teacher Told Me, by James Loewen, many different important points are made about how the history textbook industry is corrupt, telling lies, or not telling the whole truth to the young readers. This should be very evident to most people, since textbooks spanning from elementary to high school often tell different pieces of information, and sometimes, complete opposite of those pieces of information. For years, history textbooks have been corrupted by the economically elite, and…

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led to much warfare, one being King Philip’s war. King Philip’s War was a last major effort by the Native Americans of southern New England to drive out the English settlers. Led by Metacom, the Pokunoket chief called ‘King Philip’ by the English, Wampanoag Indians joined with the Nipmucks, Pocumtucks, and Narragansetts in a bloody uprising. It lasted fourteen months and destroyed twelve frontier towns. This was also apparent in the Virginian colonies as well. Due to many disputes with the…

Knowledge is Power: A Brief Study of Colonial Indian Schools In the early years of English settlement in North America, a push to establish educational institutions for Indians grew in an attempt to ameliorate the relationships between colonists and their neighboring tribes. Indian schools developed in several places, but most notably in the Massachusetts at Harvard and in Virginia at the College of William and Mary. For both institutions, the funding came from the will of Sir Robert Boyle, 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…

In 1492, Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer, initiated colonization by Europe in the New World when he sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. English and Spanish colonies grew to become very different from one another with frequent similarities. The Spanish colonies and New England greatly differed in terms of control by a European government, were both vastly similar and extremely different in terms of religion, and were largely similar in terms of treatment of indigenous…

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