Jonestown Massacre

What follow are the events and tensions leading up to the Boston Massacre on March 5th, 1770. The soldiers and the colonists were quarreling and there were high tensions amongst them. In the days leading up to the massacre the soldiers may have plotted against the colonists of New England. There was a fight that took place at the ropemakers, which is considered to be one of the most influential encounters between the soldiers and the New Englanders. There are several different accounts of how this conflict took place. According to Captain Preston, “[o]n the [2nd] instant two of the 29th going through one Gray's ropewalk, the rope-makers insultingly asked them if they would empty a vault. This unfortunately had the desired effect by provoking

Wounded Knee was a terrible event in US history. It showed how the US government didn't understand the Native Americans and treated them badly and unfairly.

Lastly, in the incident with Jonestown, showed the most extreme case of conformity and obedience. Jim Jones was a pastor at Peoples Temple, he was the leader of an interracial church. For its time, Jim Jones was pushing past race and ethnicity and introducing a new church that welcomed all people. Jones was the type of man that made people feel comfortable and at home; maybe that is why so many people followed him when he moved his temple across the county and then to Guyana. I think what made people interested in Jonestown was how the community seemed very close and simple, but who would have guessed that those 900 townspeople would all commit mass suicide just because one man said to. The question that remains is, why did so many people obey

The earliest known United States shooting to happen on school property was the Pontiac's Rebellion school massacre on July 26, 1764, where four Lenape American Indian entered the schoolhouse near present-day Greencastle, Pennsylvania, shot and killed schoolmaster Enoch Brown. They had killed nine or ten children (reports vary) as well. Only two children survived the shooting. November 2, 1853 Louisville, Kentucky a student, Matthew Ward, bought a self-cocking pistol in the morning, went to school and killed Schoolmaster Mr. Butler for excessively punishing his brother the day before. Even though he shot the Schoolmaster point blank in front of his classmates, he was acquitted. An April 30, 1866 editorial in the New York Times argued against students carrying pistols, citing "...pistols being dropped on the floor at balls or being exploded in very inconvenient ways. A boy of 12 has his pantaloons made with a pistol pocket; and this at a boarding-school filled with boys,

The Bloody Sunday massacre unfolded on the 22nd January 1905. An unarmed, peaceful march in St. Petersburg, Russia to the Winter Palace was organized by Father Gapon. Approximately 200,000 workers gathered with pictures of their ‘Little Father’ the Tsar, singing the anthem God Save the Tsar all the way along. The problem that it was illegal to hold any demonstration against the Tsar’s authority had threatened the government to believe that it would became a riot and thus, ordered the Imperial Guard to stop and dismiss the protesters. As there were too many protesters that the limited soldiers could not control over, some started gunning down the demonstrators even if no physical threat was shown. Whether the soldiers was given an order to fire

troops were on the pine ridge reservation in South Dakota to quiet the ghost dance disorder of 1890.After the Indian police killed chief sitting bull while trying to arrest him on December 15th on the standing rock his hunkpapa band of the Lakota tribe grew agitated and troop reinforcements arrived.When 200 of the Indians fled southward to Cheyenne river military officials feared a hunkpapa miniconjou coalition.There was about 38 of the hunkpapa joined a more militant group of 350 or so miniconjou ghost dancers led by chief Bigfoot.

Boiling over with history, The Free state of Jones shows the triumphs and tragedies of a poor white farmer named Newton Knight as he leads an ever growing colony of people to the control of Jones County, Mississippi and other bordering areas. This movie did take some liberties with adding fictional characters such as Knight’s nephew Daniel, and Moses. These characters were never actually real, but they represent parts and themes of the real story. Moses shows that a relationship between Knight and African-American people existed and was prevalent. His nephew’s death shows a boiling over of the things in the war that Newt did not agree with, which pushed him to desert the army. The Free State of Jones created many fictional things, but should be seen as historically accurate due to its portrayal of guerilla warfare, the motivations for the soldiers leaving the confederacy, and the depiction of life for blacks during reconstruction after the war.

Jones became so paranoid that the government was threatening his progressive movement that he convinced the people of Jonestown to commit suicide by telling them that the government was going to come and torture them and their children, that they would fall into the hands of the enemy and that that would not be a dignified or respectful way to go, he told them that they were not to fall into the hands of the enemy and that if they could not live in peace then they would die in peace, he called this massive suicide the act of protesting the conditions of an inhumane world. Jones was so insinuated into the lives of these people, he controlled every aspect of it, he preached that no one had the right to play god, which is what he ended up doing. The Peoples’ Temple was a religious cultural trend in the 70s because it represented what people wanted and yearned for at the time which was a utopia, people strongly believe that perfection was attainable. There were so many other religious groups and cults trying to achieve the same thing, the perfection of society in their own way such as the sacrificing of animals in some and the murder of people in

Jonestown Massacre Peoples Temple was a church founded by Jim Jones in 1956. It was originally established in Indiana, moved to California in 1966, and then moved outside the United States in the South American country of Guyana in 1973. Peoples Temple was an integrated spiritual congregation that believed in christianity. It was also a church that was focused on helping people and congregating in a temple to hear about God, have dinner and dances in a pavilion together to show communion and respect towards the religion. Jim Jones was the leader of the church and had a vision of a communist community, one in which everyone lived together in harmony and worked for the common good.

In 1866, the army is intent on building roads and railroads through Indian territory. Five sioux are sent into Powder River Country to convince Indian chiefs to sign the treaty at Fort Laramie. However, before the treaty is signed the meeting is done. The Army just continues with their plan, and constructs the Bozeman trail. The indians follow the regiment building the road. The Indians vex the soldiers and mess with their progress. The Indians attacked the fort and killed all the soldiers there, including a dog. The ambush became known as Fetterman’s Massacre. This not entirely correct though because the Indians lost more troops than the white soldiers did. The Army then sends in a commission but they get nothing done. When the indians attack

At one level, the deaths at Jonestown can be viewed as the product of obedience, of people complying with the orders of a leader and reacting to the threat of force. In the Peoples Temple, whatever Jim Jones commanded, the members did. When he gathered the community at the pavilion and the poison was brought out, the populace was surrounded

[online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3yzkhJVXE4. The source Jonestown Cult Suicides - The True Story is a documentary created and published by History channel which is one of the biggest historical-focus television channels worldwide. As the title of the documentary The True Story mentions, the series intends to stay as accurate as possible while presenting historical events. While a great many of primary sources such as video footage and audio recording are shown in the documentary, testimony from survivors of the massacre including the cult leader Jim Jones’ son also contributes

The worst mass murder suicide in history was the Jonestown Massacre. The Jonestown Massacre happened on November 18th 1978.More then 900 people were killed in the Massacre, 232 of which were children. The Massacre happened on a piece of land in Guyana that the People’s Temple, run by James Jones, had bought. The People’s Temple was a church run by James Jones who preached about diversity and racism. James was not a real preacher, all of his speeches were based on his opinions and theories of the world. He pretended to be a doctor. People would give him money and he would pretend to heal them. He founded his church in 1965. After getting bad press about his speeches, he took his followers and moved them all out to Guyana, telling them they

Architectural buildings around the world make up one factor of the beauty and culture of each country. The Winter Palace is an incredibly beautiful architectural building in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Winter Palace consists of great importance politically, culturally, and symbolically in the city’s third century. In 1708, the Winter Palace was first built as a wooden house with a Dutch style to be the Imperial residence of Peter the Great and his family. In 1711, the wood was replaced by a stone building. However, in 1731 Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli was assigned to reconstruct the palace into a much larger and newer design. The third reconstruction of the palace was completed in the year of 1735. Nevertheless, it only lasted 17 years before Rastrelli was asked again to expand the building even more. Two years later, he decided to completely rebuild the Winter Palace after the confirmation of the empress. (saint-petersburg.com) Ratrelli’s designs for the exterior were in a Baroque style, which have remained the same till this day. (about-eastern-europe.com)

Historical Idea: The Japanese were particularly brutal because they saw the Chinese as an inferior race.