The Sand Creek Massacre : The Cause Of The Sand Creek Massacre

John Brown single-handedly created the sparks that led to the southern secession. John Brown was a religious man who believed in “an eye for an eye”. He was willing to use as much violence as necessary for his cause even if it was extreme. In 1864, John Brown lead a group of men to kill five pro-slavery men because of a rumor he heard about the murder of anti-slavery men. This tradesy is known as the Pottawatomie Massacre. Document B shows that Brown had “torn, hacked and disfigured” men at Pottawatomie. This brutal massacre proves that Brown’s actions were unheroic and ended up upsetting many men. When other pro-slavery men heard about his incident they were enraged. The murders of the men led to a series of violent events between the proslavery

There were many people and settlers involved in the Sand Creek Massacre. A very important settler was Colonel John M. Chivington. Chivington was in charge of many Colorado volunteers during the Colorado War. John was appointed by the governor of the whole Colorado Territory. The governor's name was William Gilpin. William didn’t mind any of the Indians. ”Gilpin offered to make Chivington chaplain, but Chivington is supposed to have said: ‘I feel compelled to strike a blow in person for the destruction of human slavery.’”( Myers 2) Chivington was under direct orders of Maj. Gen. Samuel Ryan Curtis during the war. During this time the settlers decided they wanted to make a peace treaty with the Native Tribes. The Tribes have always respected the whites but the whites wanted to

President Harrison’s intended message in his “Report on Wounded Knee Massacre and the Decrease in Indian Land Acreage” is to ensure the people that the massacre was a self-defense act by the soldiers. He said that the natives were “naturally warlike and turbulent” which puts the blame on the massacre on the Natives. Modern American’s can learn a lot from the Wounded Knee Massacre. To Americans, the massacre represents the end of the Indian resistance. Although this massacre is usually not mentioned in history classes today is it defiantly something that should be remembered. American soldiers were violent towards the Indians. While men were trying to flee the American soldiers would shoot them in the back and let their bodies there to freeze.

The massacre at Wounded Knee was the last action in a long and bloody war that pitted Native American Indians against U.S Military forces. For roughly 300 years the two sides had been in constant conflict across America in a battle for land, resources, and ultimately; freedom. This final massacre solidified the American hold on the west and closed the final chapter on a way of life that can never be brought back. Lakota Indians, having learned of the death of Sitting Bull started to move towards Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in hopes of finding protection from Red Cloud. However, the harsh South Dakota winter weather had different plans, causing Chief Big Foot to become extremely ill. The Lakota came across cavalry forces

The Unredeemed Captain is the factual telling of the Deerfield Massacre and the ways it effected the Williams family who lost their daughter as a captive to the Bear tribe of the Mohawk Native Americans. The book deeply explores religion and how it relates to the ideas of savagery and family through comparison of experiences in the lives of the Puritans and the lives of the Native American captors.

One cold night in 1864 the tribe leader my dad moved us to sand creek because we were attacked by the settlers we got moved to reservations.We knew we wouldn't survive there so we got moved to sand creek anyway back to the story.When we got to sand creek we were surprised how dirty it looked we had to set up our tepes so we did that while my dad talked to the mountain men. After, setting up our tepes we set up our trenches my dad came back looking happy he told us we got a place.We all shouted “hurra hurra”it was time to sleep everyone went to bed.When we woke up the next morning we smelt blood and

On May 24, 1856, John Brown and his small army of men raided Lawrence, Kansas, killing five unsuspecting civilians. The attack ended in the capture and hanging of Brown, as the action was seen as treasonous. Since this event, debate has incessantly surrounded the figure due to the violence and morality of the situation. Despite the lives lost, John Brown was a hero because of the reasoning of the raid and the lack of alternative options.

Wilson reports that one of the most exceedingly awful abominations professedly committed against the African American soldiers happened at Fort Pillow, Tennessee on April 12, 1864, when the Confederate Army unpredictably murdered approximately three hundred black fighters. The fort, stormed by General Nathan Bedford Forrest's troops, had surrendered. General Nathan Bedford Forrest would later become an organizer of the Ku Klux Klan The Union Army claimed that the killing of the black soldiers was a massacre; yet, the Confederacy denied this claim, stating that the soldiers died in the fighting before the surrender. This massacre failed to weaken the courage of the black soldiers, but rather raised their determination and many black soldiers

The Battle of Little Bighorn, which was fought on June 25, 1876, contributed to the west being lost by the Native Americans because it provoked the United States government and its citizens to view the Native Americans as hostile people that needed to be controlled. Even though the Native Americans won the battle against George Custer, the people of the United States saw it as a massacre. According to the article The Battle of Little Bighorn, “The demise of Custer and his men outraged many white Americans and confirmed their image of the Indians as wild and bloodthirsty” (TBOLB, para. 3). Right after Custer’s last stand, General Sheridan finally had the permission he needed to put more soldiers on the battlefield and crush the Native American uprising, which would lead to the surrender of the native Americans to the United States.

Although many historians believe that the Boston Massacre was an act of self defense, it is clear that the incident was murder on the part of the soldiers. One reason why the situation was murder is because no soldier was seriously injured or killed in the massacre. This shows it was murder because there were many colonists injured and five colonists were killed, while no soldiers were killed or injured. If they were truly in danger, some would have been harmed. Also, another reason why the situation was murder is because the soldiers came into the situation with their guns loaded and bayonets on. This shows it was murder because they should not have been ready to harm unless they were planning to murder the colonists. Lastly, a reason why

“Over the Earth I come.” This is not a statement made in haste but a declaration of war, coming from the mouth of a Sioux warrior, a Dakota. They call him Crooked Lightning. That was the first and only true announcement about the planned uprising from the Dakota Nation. The Sioux Uprising of 1862 was appallingly deadly and destructive considering it may have been avoided if the United States had paid the Sioux their gold on time.

The U.S.S. Pueblo incident happened January 23, 1968 when North Korea suspected the United States of spying. They captured the ship and the crew from the Sea of Japan and then months later, Johnson announces the slowing of the bombings taking place in Vietnam. I think there is a correlation between these two events. Johnson believed that the reason why North Korea was keeping the soldiers captive was because the threat they felt as alliances with North Vietnam. They knew that the US military was continuously bombing Vietnamese and the idea of having captives gave the illusion of power. Less than a year later on December 22, the captives were freed but North Korea kept the U.S.S. Pueblo. While they still had the captives, Martin Luther King JR was assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis Tennessee and two months later,

The tension was evident in every frame. The British and the colonists were anything, but

The dark history of this all-American holiday is well documented and anyone who wants to know the truth can easily find it. What I will present here are just a few of the facts. In 1637, English settlers moved into the Connecticut valley, home of the Pequot Indians. Then early one morning while the Natives were still asleep, the settlers surrounded, attacked, and set ablaze a town full of Pequot Indians. They burned entire families alive. Anyone who escaped the fire, was hunted down, tramped into the mud, and savagely hacked to pieces. In the aftermath of the massacre, these depraved English terrorists thanked God for the easy victory over helpless and innocent people. Then on the very next day, their degenerate

November 18, 1978, altered America, but the process leading up to that day began much earlier by a mind only described as perverse. The Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ, Peoples Temple as it is commonly referred, led by James Warren Jones blazed its own way into the history books with what is still one of the most disastrous endings of a movement. Jim Jones is known for founding the most infamous cult in American history; his reputation revolves around the manipulation of a population, professing skewed values, controlling that population, and eventually destroying what he created in a final act of domination.