Jonesown Massacre And The Jonestown Massacre

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

The Sand Creek Massacre was an attack on the villages of Cheyenne and Arapaho in southeastern Colorado Territory on November 29, 1864. Around 700 men of the Colorado U.S. Volunteer Cavalry attacked and killed an estimated 70-163 people who lived in those towns; two thirds of the people who died were mothers and children. The attack occurred because the Cheyenne and Arapaho people destroyed white settlers’ property, and an Indian chief tried to settle things peacefully, but it was too late.

People often fear the history that the world has had because history often repeats itself. The Salem Witch Trials and The Rosewood Incident occurred in two different time periods but had many things in common such as innocent deaths due to hate and the need for revenge.

At dawn on November 29th, 1864 the Civil War began between the United States Army and the Cheyenne Indians. The Sand Creek Massacre, where the humans who lived in times of trouble and tribulations against one another. The Sand Creek Massacre took many lives of children, women, and men. The United States Army went to war with the Cheyenne Indians with no warning. The Cheyenne Indians were surprised at what was happening, but there had been hostility among them since the Indians and Americans had signed the treaty. The brutality that happened was horrible.

In the early 1600s, colonies such as Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Maryland, were built on various religious principles. In addition to the colonist focus on gaining their independence and having the freedom to live as they chose; away for England 's ruling. However, religion was a major battle for those upcoming settlements. Many had their own perception of what they thought was the truth about the Bible and if anyone opposed their belief, harm was due to them.

On March 8, 1971 eight ordinary citizens broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, a town just outside Philadelphia, took hundreds of secret files, and shared them with the public. In doing so, they uncovered the FBI‘s vast and illegal regime of spying and intimidation of Americans exercising their First Amendment rights. Although the FBI claimed there were “just a few things missing,” about 1,000 files were removed and leaked to the press. This started the most extensive expose and investigation of the FBI and the largest man/woman hunts the FBI ever conducted. A little over four decades later, during the spring and summer of 2013, an American citizen drew international attention after deliberately

The Myall Creek Massacre occurred in the early evening of Sunday the 10th June 1838. A group of eleven men, convicts and ex-convict stockmen, viscously slaughtered a group of around twenty eight Wirrayaraay Aboriginal people. They attacked men, women and children who were all either camped peacefully next to the station huts or, inside the station with the other settlers, enjoying dancing and a meal together (at the Myall Creek cattle station in northern New South Wales).

Countries across the globe have rich histories full of tradition a glories events. However, these countries always have a darker side to their history, one historians and the public may often cast aside. Being a powerful and extensive nation, the United States conforms to this theory. Many times, things like wars will be glorified in the country even though they brought about tremendous loss of life. Yet there are events worse than wars that many Americans would rather not dwell upon. Two such incidents are the Memphis riots and Sand Creek massacre. These two events illustrate a more sinister past to the United States. As they were both massacres, they have many similarities in what happened yet they remain distinctly unique. Overall, both catastrophes offer a glimpse at the stark reality of how Native Americans and African Americans have been mistreated in the United States and how differently the minorities had come to be treated by the government.

By the late 1970’s Jones’ congregation peaked in numbers, so did the persona of Jim Jones. His image was that of a messiah, the personal object of the People’s Temple, “Father” to his devout followers (Osherow). Jones had their unwavering loyalty, unconditional love, their worldly possessions, and believers who were under his will. He had the components to begin building his paradise, his city, his infamous legacy, Jonestown.

As the betrayal began to increase, the more severe the punishments became. Jim Jones had very little tolerance for disrespect, disobedience, negativity, and secrets. He was determined to keep everyone under control. Once the cult was discovered at Jonestown, there was a tape that Jones recorded during the time the People’s Temple was going to commit suicide. “Jones himself can be heard for the majority of the 45-minute recording as he is attempting to persuade the members into committing suicide, and succeeding” (McCloy). This is a very disturbing tape where you can hear Jim Jones speaking to the members in a persuasive way. However, there are also some people on the tape who was against Jones for choosing their time of death. The majority

The critics of the followers of the “Kingdom of Matthias” reflect a variety of ideologies that characterized the societal changes of the 19th century Northern region of the United States. The Kingdom of Matthias was a spiritual cult founded and primarily administered by Robert Mathews, an American religious figure and former businessman whose spiritual activities inspired his followers to refer to him as Matthias the Prophet. The Kingdom of Matthias received a great deal of publicity and national media attention in the US during its time, and has thereafter become an issue of historical consideration whose analysis reflects interesting characteristics of the changing American society of the 19th century. The critics of the Kingdom of Matthias

The 1870’s and 1880’s in America was marked with growing nativism towards the Chinese, accumulating to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 (Yung 54). Competing immigrant laborers effected the entire country, including the Midwest, where people sought employment in coal mines. Animosity towards the Chinese was also largely uncontroversial in the territories, with the Wyoming Republican party declaring that the Chinese were an undesired group (Storti 98). There is no definitive date that hints at the beginning of the Rock Springs Massacre in 1885, where many Chinese miners were killed by white miners. However, origins of this conflict can be traced back to when the Chinese were first brought in as strikebreakers in 1875 unde the Union Pacific Coal

The most tragic mass murder in U.S. history before the attack on the twin towers, the Jonestown massacre. In 1955, Jim Jones established Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ, commonly shortened to Peoples Temple, and soon this religious movement struck criticism and also a big following. The church’s tolerant philosophy and community outreach caused Peoples Temple to grow quickly. They cared for the elderly, ran a soup kitchen, and even maintained a social service center in Indiana (Lewis, 100). Because of his active role in the community, Jim was awarded with the head position of the Indianapolis Human Rights Commission, giving the Temple an even better reputation and more networking opportunities (Steel, 6). Many of the church followers

This article, published in the Milwaukee Star in April 1968 and located in the African American Newspapers database, focuses on Dr. King’s philosophy of unity and equality and how it closely resembled the beliefs of the Baha’i community, a “monotheistic” religion which “emphasized the essential oneness of humankind and all religions” in order to attain world peace. In addition, the article provides information of the Baha’i faith. The fact that the article refers to Martin Luther King’s philosophy as a “great principle” implies that the newspaper favored, and thus supported, the civil rights acts.

Through their successes, both King and Jones left lasting impacts in each of their movements. Credited as one of the organization’s most successful leaders, Bob Jones helped the civil rights era Klan in the south gain momentum after having remained stagnant since the 1920’s (Pacatte, 2015). In only a few years time, Jones was able to grow the North Carolina Klan to 10,000 members, gaining the trust of mostly low income people and influencing them to join the movement (Pacatte, 2015). Similarly to Martin Luther King, Jones used his leadership to guide his followers in a nonviolent direction (Cheshire, 2015). While Jones’s leadership largely affected the social aspects of his group, as a civil rights leader, King was successful in inspiring people to join the cause, and in leading his followers in protests and boycotts that helped them achieve their goal of legal reforms (Anderson, 2016).