Wampanoag

too great to overcome. After the Indian uprising in 1622, the colonists gave up attempts to assimilate and live peacefully with the native people. Before the 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…

the Puritans, Christianity was a popular religious practice for the newly founded colonies. For most Native American tribes this wasn 't a problem, in fact some members of the tribe converted to Christianity. One such member was Naomai Omaush, a Wampanoag women, who embraced Christianity strongly. The main impact that Christianity had on Indians was that it slowly began to…

During the “King Phillip’s War” many English colonist were either killed or taken captive by the Native Americans. Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, who has one of the first and well known written accounts, spent eleven weeks in captivity by the Wampanoag Indians. Rowlandson, a professed puritan, strong in her faith is put to the test during her captivity. During Rowlandson’s time with the native Indians she is introduced to an unfamiliar view of them that is against her prior knowledge that was influenced…

In 1635, John Winthrop expelled Roger Williams from Massachusetts. John Winthrop was scared of Williams’ ideas on divorce, church and state, and slavery. Williams was very ahead of his time because his ideas are the bias for how society thinks about issues today. He even had his personal ideas used in the Constitution. After his exile, Williams got caught lost in a forest during one of the greatest winter storms ever recorded. He stumbled upon foreign lands that would soon become Rhode Island…

After the failure and mystery of Roanoke, England took another shot to assert the English dominance in a still newlywed America. England hired the Virginia Company of London to send three ships, the Susan Constant, the Discovery, and the Godspeed to settle in Virginia with good intentions. The congregation of Englishmen aboard the ships had instructions given by the Virginia Company to search the Virginian coast to find an area of land that would be both fertile and defendable against outside…

trade with the Indians. According to the Sacramento City College school Canvas, “When the pilgrims, who settled Plymouth in 1620 and endured a harsh winter where half of the settlers died. The remaining Pilgrims survived mainly with the help of the Wampanoag people, who supplied the English with seeds and tools. At harvest time, as the narrative goes, English settlers and Indians came together to feast and to give thanks.” (Canvas) The English and The Indians are giving each other an offering…

These objects have more in common than one might think they do. In the 19th century, the whaling industry, especially in the pinnacle spot of New England, became a very popular maritime resource-gathering for many people. Whales provided much-needed resources that were somewhat difficult to come by in other locations, and most of a whale’s products were extremely valuable and worth a lot of money. The actual labor that involved hunting whales often paid more and provided more opportunities than…

Permanent English settlement of Massachusetts began in 1620, but five main Algonquian tribes lived there before then: the Nauset, Wampanoag, Nipmuc, Massachusetts, and Pocumtuc.(¨Massachusetts¨)In colonial times, it has also been referred to as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and its nicknames include the Bay State and the Old Colony State. It is one of the most important of the 13…

Connecting the “Power of Faith” Anne Bradstreet and Mary Rowlandson This paper presents the relationship with faith between to two female Puritan American writers in the late eighteenth century. Anne Bradstreet and Mary Rowlandson. Both Puritan women with great hardships within their lives. It is clear that Mary Rowlandson and Anne Bradstreet shared many different roles, sharing a universal willpower providing literature and poetry to readers in the 20th Century. From this we see that both…

conflict would seem like an only answer. “With tensions spilling over following the collapse of trade partnerships and aggressive expansion of colonist territories, Pokunoket chief Metacom who was also known as King Phillip, led a bloody uprising of Wampanoag, Nipmuck, Pocumtuck and Narragansett tribes” (History.com(1)). The causes of Native American resentment can be easily pinpointed in one’s opinion. It is due to the expansionist attitude that the English settlers maintained, and the…