Essays Tagged: "Pequot War"

Comarison of the bias over the Pequot War in four different US History textbooks.

The Americans and The Enduring Vision have entirely different views on the cause of the Pequot War. In The Americans it stresses that the Puritans were attacking Native American nations fo ... s, the New England colonists set out to remove or destroy native societies." (56). Consequently the Pequot nation decided to "take a stand against the colonists" (56) for not only themselves, but all ... even though the colonists were doing the natives this favor, there were still some tribes, like the Pequots, who resented it simply because they liked to quarrel.When describing the war each book prov ...

(3 pages) 33 1 1.7 Nov/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars

British colonists in America violated the very ideals they treasured in treatment of blacks, Native Americans, and even the poorer classes of white settlers.

tives', but they went as far as to killing and destroying if there was resistance. In the notorious Pequot War, English settlers virtually annihilated the Pequot tribe by setting fires to their wigwam ...

(2 pages) 53 2 4.3 May/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Aggressors of the Pequot War. Essay explores controversy over the war and argues that statue of Major John Mason should be removed, instead of glorified.

The Aggressors of the Pequot War In 1889, the state of Connecticut raised a memorial statue of Major John Mason in ... ut raised a memorial statue of Major John Mason in a spot near where he and his comrades killed 600 Pequot men, women, and children during the Pequot War. A few years ago, the statue was moved to the ... he statue was moved to the Palisado Green in Windsor, Connecticut. The statue was moved because the Pequots felt that the English were the aggressors of the Pequot War and had no right to keep their s ...

(4 pages) 15 0 5.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars

Were the English Colonists Guilty of Genocide?

defense against the Indians' attacks.By 1607, when the European colonists arrived at Jamestown, the Pequots numbered 14,000, but in the next hundred years that number would decrease by ninety-five per ... e epidemics' effects were a gift from God, and that the Indians were the Devil's workers.In 1636, a Pequot was accused of murdering a colonist. The settlers went on a rampage to seek revenge. They bur ...

(2 pages) 41 1 4.3 Dec/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers

The Annihilation of a Culture

148;. It was not until the year 1673 that the Native Americans began to fight back (Dillon 17). The Pequot War of 1673 was the first of many wars in which the Native Americans and Europeans engaged in ...

(5 pages) 28 0 4.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

North American Indian Relations with the French and the British

etely when it came to expansion. Tensions between the English and Indians reached a height with the Pequot War and King Philip's War. The English did not except the native way of life and no early bon ...

(2 pages) 18 0 3.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Metacom and His Impact on the State of Rhode Island

ettlers. During Massasoit's reign both sides experienced a state of piece, briefly broken up by the Pequot War of 1636 to 1637 . After Massasoit's death in 1661, Metacom's older brother Wamsutta, know ...

(6 pages) 8 0 0.0 Oct/2009

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History