This was the beginning of hostilities in order to document the behavior of the grant of two additional Pequot Battlefield - Fort Saybrook seat and identification documents and investigate other Pequot fight another war. May 26, 1637, was attacked by the Pequot Puritans. The Puritans were Anglicans who emigrated to England because of the fear of religion. Another reason why the puritans migrated to America, he had to purify the faith and believe, as "God's chosen people." Thus, we must sieze Peqouts Authority land.
In 1609 John Ratcliffe is captured and killed by Indian women. Colonist were afraid to leave and hunt in fear that they would be attacked by the Indians. As retaliation in 1613 Pocahontas is captured and held as a prisoner by the Colonist. She converted to Christianity and was trded back to her people in exchange for food. By 1622 The Indian Massacre occurred and they Indians killed over 300 colonist.
The ship carried a king’s ransom in various treasures and precious materials. During the trip Jacobsz and Cornelisz made a plan to hijack the ship and start a new life somewhere else using all the supply of gold and silver onboard. Then around midnight on June 4, 1629 the Batavia struck a reef in the Abrolhos Islands, some 80 km off the Western coast of Australia. As soon as the situation became clear evacuations to near by islands commenced, but unfortunately 40 drowned. Pelsaert, being the commandeer went to seek help from the port of Batavia with 30 others at his side as it was some 1,200 miles away.
[3] King James I of England, recognizing the need for a permanent settlement in New England, granted competing royal charters to the Plymouth Company and the London Company. The Plymouth Company ships arrived at the mouth of the Kennebec River (then called the Sagadahoc River) in August 1607 where they established a settlement named Sagadahoc Colony or more well known as Popham Colony (see symbol "Po" on map to the
By the 1600s, Spain, England, and France were all struggling to establish footholds in the newly discovered American continent. Spain achieved initial success when the Spanish conquistadors plundered the Mayan, Aztec, and Incan empires in South America. The French were also successful in the New World, when they established trading outposts along the Saint Lawrence river and traded with the Native Americans for precious animal furs. The English began their colonization efforts in the 1580s when they established their first permanent colonies at Roanoke, Jamestown, and Plymouth. The Roanoke, Jamestown, and Plymouth colonies can all be compared on the basis of the motivation for settling, economic conditions, race relations, problems, and
After the research was no more need of use, McCoy evacuated the Hygienic Laboratory and began to kill the experiment animals. This would contain and prevent another disastrous outbreak. A few months later when everything is contained congress grants the Hygienic Laboratory with a new name, The National Institute of Health. This epidemic brought disease and catastrophe. Parrot Fever spread throughout America, and eventually brought death to one of five people that were infected.” There were a total of a hundred and sixty-nine cases of psittacosis nationwide.
King Phillip’s war- war between Indian and English supporters of metacom and the colonists that killed 5% of colonists and twice as many Indians, including Metacom. The Indian population was decreased by 40% in southern England and eliminated resistance to white expansion 13. Indentured servants- people who come to America and work as a slave for an agreed upon number of years in return for freedom or property. They shaped the Chesapeake society until diseases killed them off 14. Virginia House of Burgesses and royal governor’s council- two chambers of legislature created in the 1650’s.
He believed that the Catholic church was corrupt for selling indulgences as penance for sins in that the sale was a way for the Church to exploit the unfortunate and poor (Reformation 5). The final push for the need to change was the English reformation. During King Henry VIII’s rule in the sixteenth century, the Church of England was formed. He established the church because the Pope of the Catholic Church would not grant him a divorce from his wife, Catherine of Aragon. The Anglican church had many similarities to the Catholic church: similar rituals and a bible titled the Book of Common Prayere (Reformation 9).
The Puritans wanted to remove all practice and rituals of Catholicism from Europe. John Winthrop and fellow Puritans were frustrated with religious activities in England, “All other Churches of Europe are brought to desolation and or sinnes”. He believed that the Church was corrupted and that the lord “Frowned upon us, doe threatens us fearfully”. Winthrop believed that England was invaded by evil and ran by a corrupted Government, and that the roots for religious learning were being disturbed. They feared to live in such sinful society, because they believed that God predestined people to salvation and others were damned for the rest of time.
He organized men to raid Indian villages to steal food and kidnap natives which became slaves. In 1609 a ship arrived with 600 people on it which was mainly women and children only. These women and children became indentured servants and went straight into Jamestown. They would work for about three and a half years as cooks, nannies, servants and in return would pay there way for