Jonestown Massacre Research Paper

In 1781 general George Washington and his 17,000 troops of the continental army and the army of France entered the city of Yorktown, Virginia. With Lord General Cornwallis he only had 9,000 troops to try to defend the city of Yorktown. This is known as the most important battle in the revolutionary war.

Walker, Ronald W., Richard E. Turley, Jr., and Glen M. Leonard. Massacre at Mountain Meadows. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Print.

The causes of the conflict were that the missionaries were trying to force a religion on the Cayuse tribe that they did not believe in and the missionaries were wasting precious Cayuse recourses and were bringing in so many emigrants that they were starting to completely overrun the Cayuses land. The people involved in The Whitman Massacre were the Cayuse Tribe and the missionaries involved in the Whitman Mission. The Cayuse Tribe was tired of the Missionaries taking over their land and didn`t like the fact that they were bringing more and more emigrants who were wasting their resources onto their land. They continually tried to get them to leave but they didn`t take heed to their warning. So, in an act of rage, the Cayuse

A little more than 35 years ago, a man named Jim Jones shocked the world when he led almost 1,000 of his followers in an act of mass suicide; amongst those dead were more than 270 children1. On November 18, 1978, Jones and his followers drank Kool-Aid laced with cyanide in what he had presented to them as a peaceful escape to injustices of this world. The Jonestown Massacre was an incredible tragedy that sent waves through the whole world. Though the event was tragic, scholars have used our knowledge of what happened in order to deepen our understanding of cults, religions, and how both can influence people’s decisions.

With the sun rising on a morning in May of 1636, roughly 500 Pequot men, women, and children lay slaughtered on the ground. This was the outcome of the Mystic Fort Battle. The Puritans in New England thought they were entitled to the land and resources that the Native Americans had. With the smallpox epidemic killing thousands of Native Americans who were not prepared for the disease, the Puritans; especially John Winthrop thought that this was God's way of telling the Puritans that this land was meant for them and not the Native Americans (Edwards).

Do you know what happened on the night of March 5, 1770? Well, that was the night of the Boston Massacre. Five people were shot and killed by the British Redcoats. This happened because a young patriot named William Garrick was taunting a British Redcoat, Hugh White. White hit Garrick with the stock of his musket. This soon turned into full fledged fighting. Later, the Redcoats fired into a crowd of Boston natives, killing five. A year or so after this event, there was a trial for all of the Redcoats. John Adams, the future second U.S president, played an important role in the trials. Two Redcoats were charged with murder and two other Redcoats were sentenced to be executed. The two Redcoats

On November 29, 1864 approximately 700 U.S. troops attacked a village of 500 Arapaho and Cheyenne Indians. The village consisted of men, women, and children, who thought they were at peace with the U.S. government. The attack at Sand Creek was part of a chain of bad events and battles the Plains Indian tribes were experiencing with migrating settlers arriving from the east and U.S. soldiers. An 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie condensed Cheyenne and Arapaho land but promised them yearly payments in exchange for safe passage of settlers through their tribal lands. The discovery of gold in Colorado in 1858 brought a greater inflow of settlers coming in a hunt

On March 5, 1770, a British Sentry was being harassed by several Boston Citizens. They chirped and threw snowballs at him until he couldn’t take it anymore. He yelled for help and seven more British soldiers came to his aid. Soon many more Boston Civilians came to the scene which caused more distress. This terrible event would end with five people killed and several injured and lead me to believe that the British soldiers are not guilty.

The St.valentine massacre was a brutal killing. People say That Al “Scarface” Capone was the cause of the shooting that night.

American Revolution in Siege of Yorktown. April 19, 1775 - September 3, 1783. It will happen in Yorktown. His winning strategy that will be using the war will work in Yorktown and other places.

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).

Earlier that month, the people’s temple had a visit by congressman Leo Ryan, who was there to investigate reports of abuse and overwork by relatives of Jonestown members. During his stay, numerous men and women had requested his assistance to help them get out of this horrid cult. Ryan opened up this offer to the rest of this community but in fear of their leader,

On November 18, 1978, followers of Jim Jones shot and killed United States Congressman Leo J. Ryan and four others traveling with him on a fact finding trip to Guyana. Ryan was there to investigate complaints about the community called "Jonestown," which was largely inhabited by his former California constituents.

The worst mass murder suicide was the Jonestown Massacre which happened on November 18th, 1978. Have you ever head the saying “Don’t drink the Kool-Aid?” this originates for the Jonestown Massacre, which killed over 900 members of the Peoples Temple. James Jones made a concoction of a powered drink, like Kool-Aid mixed laced with cyanide and prescription drugs. James Jones used psychological manipulation instead of physical force with the members of Peoples Temple.

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