They burned entire villages and by 1882 had nearly caused the wild buffalo to go extinct (Doc. 6). The Massacre at Wounded Knee was particularly brutal. Over one hundred Sioux men, women, and children were slaughtered at the battle. There were usually limited American casualties during battles with the Indians.
Also, they would dump their human waste into the water and make it even more contaminated so when the people of Jamestown would drink or use the water it would make them ill and even to the point that they died. Within a couple of years they also faced drought which many people died because of starvation. The colony went to desperate measures by forcing the Indians to trade their grain, the Indians didn’t give up easy though as it says in the document ‘some harshe (harsh) and cruwell (cruel ) dealinge (dealings)by cutting of towe (two) of the salvages (Indians) heads and other extremities.” Another reason why the colonist died in the colony of early Jamestown was because of the skills they had. When the first ship arrived in Jamestown they brought over a total of 110 males in 1607. 47 of the men were gentlemen, back then, a gentlemen was a person of wealth who was not used to working with his hands.
Could they not have planted their own food or hunted some game? In other scenes, some English men would go on to destroy crops planted by the Native Americans, and then kill Native Americans in sight. Morgan addresses this tragedy, “it is the spring of 1612…it is not easy to make sense of the behavior displayed in these episodes. How to explain the suicidal impulse that led the hungry Englishmen to destroy the corn that might have fed them and to commit atrocities upon the people who grew it?” (pg.64) Could not have said it better myself, in an impulsive outrage of pure jealousy and anger, these men single handedly destroyed there very best life support system. Moving forward, Powhatan the chief of the local Native American tribe had a great impact upon
In Salem, Massachusetts strange laws were made when thehunting of ³witches´ began. They believed moles were signs of witches¶ mark and those whowere thought to be a witch was hung and killed. Thus, the Salem witchcraft trials and the Stonorebellion both politically and socially reflected tensions in colonial society.Socially, the class divisions played a huge role in the tensions in colonial society. Slaveswere being treated as property and not as living things and these African Americans did not likeit. So In South Carolina, a group of slaves (about 20) gathered by the Stono River and revolted.These slaves raided firearms shop and killed 20 whites colonists while marching south towardsSt.
And as the warfare advanced, 2,500 European settlers and police died and 20,000 Aboriginal inhabitants are believed to have been killed, while many thousands more died from disease and other unintended consequences of settlement. The deliberate ill treatment of Aboriginal people, the horrific impact of European diseases and the introduction of alcohol all contributed to a breakdown of Aboriginal society. When their tribal lifestyle was destroyed, the Aborigines came to live on the edge of European settlement, begging and taking up the worst European habits. Europeans saw this as evidence of their backwardness. On the other hand, if Aborigines took up weapons to defend their land, they were seen as evil savages who needed to be taught a lesson.
After watching the documentary on the Trail of Tears I have come to the conclusion that what the Americans did to the Cherokee Indians is heartless, selfish, and cruel. Men, women, and children were taken from their land and herded to makeshift forts with very little food and warm clothes. They were stripped of everything they owned and stood for. They couldn’t do anything about it for fear of being killed. I believe that what happened in the 1830s was evil.
Government soldiers killed 300 Sioux women, children, and men. The Indians who assimilated in order to survive were “whitemanized.” Crow Dog’s mother was sterilized (without her permission). Crow Dog writes of how she wishes she could “purge it out.” She was referring to her own white blood. In addition to her own internal struggles, Crow Dog writes about the oppression of Native Americans. According to Crow Dog (1991), “the fight for our land is at the core of our existence, as it has been for the last two hundred years.
Violence in a well ordered society is a rule that is often times broken. Both texts Lizzie Bright and the Buckminsters Boy and The Outsiders show that violence lead to death and the disruption of a society. In the first novel, Lizzie Bright and The Buckminsters Boy, The White People of the Pittsburg society wanted The Blacks out of their own island because they wanted to use it as a tourist resort. After the Blacks refused to move of the island, people of the Pittsburg community took matters into their own hands burning down their homes and everything that they held to their name. This resulted in a death of many blacks due to starvation and the fumes of the fire.
The church lost man power and impoverishment through not being able to cultivate their vast tracts of land. Many important people including a medieval doctor, Ibn-al–Wardis, and a philosopher named, Gental-da-Foligna died while studying the ways to cure Black Plague. The plague also affected agriculture because their was few peasants to tend to the fields because they were dying and the few left wanted more money because they were doing more work. Next there were many worries and responsibilities during the Black plague. The main way the plague was spread was from person-to-person and breathing on someone.
From the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, a series of plagues had come through and killed many people. The first wave alone killed 25 million people, or one third of the Western European population. This series of devastating epidemics created fear, gave rise to spiritual panic, and brought about concerns over exploitation. Europeans did not understand the cause of the plague, which made them fearful. You can see the fear in a letter from the schoolmaster at Deventer in 1484.