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History Of The United States Native Americans
1,062 wordsDr. Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States might be better titled A Proletarian's History of the United States. In the first three chapters Zinn looks at not only the history of the conquerors, rulers, and leaders; but also the history of the enslaved, the oppressed, and the led. Like any American History book covering the time period of 1492 until the early 1760 's, A People's History tells the story of the "discovery" of America, early colonization by European powers, the govern...
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Massachusetts Bay Colony Theory Of Motivation
2,714 wordsOne of the most hazardous tasks a historian tackles is determining what motivated the actions of a past society. Even for a present-day society, this task is fraught with perils. Are a society's motivations the sum of its adult participants? Do we give special weight to the goals of its leaders? Should we regard the society's stated goals as accurate communications of motivation, discard them as intentionally deceptive, or dissect those statements as indications of deeper desires that are too pa...
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Women And Children Governor Winthrop
2,741 words... sation dates from several months after the war, it obviously did not play a part in motivating the war. ) Who killed John Oldham? The bulk of the evidence suggests what most of the participants on the English side had claimed: the Block Islanders, a tribe tributary to the Narragansetts. The question may be legitimately asked why punitive efforts were not made against the Narragansetts for the killers of John Oldham, similar to the actions taken against the Pequots for the death of Stone. Chu...
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Women And Children Governor Winthrop
2,748 words... exported that some of the Pequot warriors taunted the English that if one of the Pequot warriors "could kill but one of you more, he would be equal with God, and as the Englishman's God is, so would he be. "[ 60 ] When we consider the willingness of Massachusetts Bay to execute troublesome Quakers for violating banishment orders, the Pequot blasphemies help to explain the bloody results of the Pequot War. Both Indians and Englishmen believed in the powers of the supernatural. Roger Williams ...
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Governor Winthrop Massachusetts Bay
2,744 words... in Plymouth were enslaved, [ 95 ] but Hirsch brings together a number of pieces of documentary evidence to show that they were enslaved for life, and some were sent to colonial prisons. [ 96 ] Roger Williams' proposal of late June, 1637, that "such Pequots as fall to them be not enslaved, like those which are taken in warr" was apparently not taken. [ 97 ] While the actions taken were nothing of which to be proud, they are not consistent with genocidal intent. Katz does an effective job of d...
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Young Men Long Ago
674 wordsMohegan Myths, Legends, Lore A brief Mohegan History The Mohegan tribe along with other Alonquian speaking Indians lived in the Thames valley in what is now Connecticut. The population was roughly 2, 200 strong. Their way of life was based on the cultivation of maize, hunting and fishing. The Mohegan and the Pequot were jointly ruled by the Pequot Chief Sassucus until a sub chief Units lead a rebellion that lead to Mohegan independence. The Pequot tribe was besieged and broken a part. The Mohega...
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