In the following month, Bacon died suddenly and his rebellion immediately collapsed. The governor took revenge upon Bacon's followers, executing some and confiscating the property of others. Bacon's Rebellion revealed the mixed motivations and tangled outcomes of warfare in colonial America. The revolt changed little within the colony; gentlemen continued to monopolize the best land, the highest offices, and the most slaves. The Indians suffered the most.
In August of 1774 Father Luis Jayme played a very big part in moving the Mission inland from the Presidio to the present site. It was not until later that year that many of the Natives joined the Christian life and were baptized. That very next year in the early hours on November 5, 1775 hundreds of natives set fire to mission buildings, destroyed the church and brutally murdered Father Luis Jayme. Father Luis Jayme was martyred because of his self-sacrifice, devotion, faith, and love at the San Diego Mission de Alcala. This made him the first California martyr.
When the Europeans set sail to America they were expecting a life better than they left behind. In the colonies, tension was growing. Two events that clearly show these tensions are theSalem Witchcraft trials in 1692 and the Stono Rebellion in 1793. These tensions grew fromunsettled things in the colonies. Socially, slaves were bottom the class pyramid and were treated bad and this caused them to revolt.
This writing was so detailed in the horrible mistreatments of the slaves that, he began to be accused of treason of his own country. His brutal descriptions of the slave’s treatment seem to prove his motives positive. It seems that he wants others to be disgusted by these wrong doings, just as he was. It is said in his writing, The Very Relation of the Devastation of the Indies, “And the Christians, with their horses and swords and pike began to carry out massacres and strange cruelties against them. They attacked the towns and spared neither the children nor the aged nor pregnant women nor women in childbed, not only stabbing them and dismembering them but cutting them into pieces as if dealing with sheep in the slaughter house”(37).
The Cruel ways of the Spaniards In “A Brief Account of the Destruction,” Bartolome Las Casas vividly describes how the Spaniards first came to the new world and ended up destroying nearly all the native populations of the Caribbean and Mexico. Bartolome Las Casas was a Spanish priest, social reformer, and historian. He is known as the principal organizer and champion of the 16th-century movement in Spain and Spanish America in defense of the Indians. In 1502, Las Casas sailed to Espanola in the expedition of Governor Nicolas de Ovando. While in the West Indies, he participated in Indian wars and acquired land and slaves.
The Spainards legitimized their rule by enforcing the church and its values tO the inferior population by converting them in effort to cease and integrate them to Spanish life. Describe the social hierarchy of the American colonies. Through sexual exploitation, many Indians were forced into a complicated social system. At the top of the hierarchy were the European whites, or peninsulares, then the mestizo mix of a European and Indian. What was the nature of the eighteenth-century reforms in Portuguese and Spanish colonies?
In William Bradford’s essay “Of Plymouth Plantation” he describes the hardship the puritan faced under King James I of England where he started to change things in Protestantism and attacking people who disagreed with him. (133) Fearing the religious persecution William Bradford and other separatists moved to Holland to have more religious freedom. They started following the teaching of John Calvin and calling themselves Puritan separating themselves from the main church of england. When they came over on the mayflower to set up the early colonies there was a lot suffering and death. There was sickness and hunger and most of people’s children die before they reach adulthood.
Apart from the colonist being harassed with taxes, their trade with all parts of the world except Britain was another reason why the colonists wrote the Declaration of Independence. The illegal imposition of rules over their trade and production, commonly known as the Navigation Acts, which have been pressed on them for over a century and made worse by the Sugar Act and Townshend Acts was controlled once the Declaration of Independence was written and signed. Furthermore, the colonists were being deprived in many cases. The Boston Massacre was when a mob of 50 colonists gathered to protest against the officials. As fists and clubs began flying a soldier dropped dead, this forced the soldiers to fire, killing five civilians and wounding six.
Explorer Christopher Columbus arrived in the Caribbean islands in 1492, sparking a wave of exploration that would have extreme consequences for the people who lived there at that time. His encounters in the Americas with Native Americans started a repetitive cycle of encounter, conquest, and death throughout the Western Hemisphere. Columbus first had very friendly relationships with the Taino people, but that soon changed. The Tainos offended the Spanish and failed to pay proper respect to Christian symbols and Columbus felt he had authority over them and could decide their fate. The Spanish forced Native Americans to convert to Christianity.
The Tainos were not prepared to fight, therefore they were turned into slaves and used for mining. Later on, the Taino leader, Agueybana, decided to rebel and there was a big war between the Spaniards and the Tainos. During the fight, Agueybana was shot and killed. Many Tainos hid in the forests and the mountains and others left to nearby islands. Agriculture was a big thing in Puerto Rico, and most of the Tainos left the island.