Ten Days that Unexpectedly Changed America Summary Essay

The Pequot war was a gruesome, bloody and horrifying war. Tensions were running high between the English and Pequot tribe in the year of 1637. This will lead to one of the bloodiest Native American massacre in American history. This video poses the vital question as to why we ignore this part of our history and mythologize an amazing relationship between the pioneers and the natives.

What is the Pequot war? How did it begin and what was the aftermath? The Pequot War could have also been known as a massacre. The Pequot war was on May 26, 1637. The Pequot war was a war between the Europeans and the Pequot Indians. The English Puritan settlements had begun expanding into the Connecticut River Valley. The only major problem with expanding the settlement was the Pequot Indians. Though, the feud had also involved other Indian tribes including the Mohegans; the Mohegans, however, shared close relation to the Pequot Indians because they were once apart of their tribe and had later split off. The Pequots and the Indians had disputes involving property, livestock damaging Indian crops, hunting, the selling of alcohol to Indians,

In the year of 1637, a war broke out in the Massachusetts Bay area against, mainly, the Pequot Indian tribe and the English Puritans. There were a multitude of valid reasons for the starting of this war between two varied groups of people. It, as stated by Katherine A. Grandjean was a, “brutal, total war,” one that “[defies] short description” (Grandjean, 2011).

This date is the first one the historians choose because the battle at Mystic, it;s cause and effect, induced and set a pattern for the Americans and Indians future relationships with each other over the next two centuries. The Massacre at Mystic challenges the reader to rekonsile the tragic irony of the American history. America is a nation found in high ideals that was also built on slaughter, destruction of epic portion of Native American population. When the Puritans arrived in New England, they already had preconceived thoughts and ideas of the Natives (their looks, lifestyle, language and etc), vice-versus. The Massacre at Mystic took place on May 26, 1637; in 1630 against the Pequot Indian tribe. From the beginning the Puritans thought

December 7, 1941 was a day that changed American History forever. At 7:48 am, Hawaiian time, the military base was attacked by 353 Japanese fighter planes, bombers and torpedo planes, launched from six aircraft carriers. This attack resulted in four sunk battleships, two of which were able to be recovered, three more battleships damaged, three cruisers damaged, three destroyers damaged, 159 aircraft damaged and 188 aircraft destroyed. There were also thousands of casualties involved in the attack, mostly military, but several civilian casualties as well. There were 2,403 Americans killed, 1,178 wounded and 68 civilians killed and 35 wounded. The Japanese had many fewer losses, they lost four submarines, 29 aircraft and 64 men were killed (History.com

On December 3, 1901, a few months after the death of President William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt addressed the United States. He said, “Indeed, from every quarter of the civilized world we received, at the time of the President’s death, assurances of such grief and regard as to touch the hearts of our people. In the midst of our affliction we reverently thank the Almighty that we are at peace with the nations of mankind; and we firmly intend that our policy shall be such as to continue unbroken these international relations of mutual respect and good will.” While the death of President McKinley was indeed an important moment in United States history, it became more important because of what it led up to. While all of the dates studied in 10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed America, by Steven M. Gillon are obviously important, some seem more important than others. In this student’s opinion, September 6, 1901 seems to have a bigger influence on American History than, say, September 9, 1956. While History progressed in an important way during Elvis’s dancing on the Ed Sullivan show, the assassination of a United States President and the installation of the president after him seems to hold more value.

The four years following the conclusion of the American Revolution (1775-83) revealed many weaknesses in the national government that had been established under the Articles of Confederation, and the forerunner to the U. S. Constitution. The political system established by the Articles favored the states over the national government, and lacked a strong executive or judiciary. Congress did not have the power to tax and was forced instead to request funds from the states, which the states were not compelled to pay. Nor could Congress regulate the commerce between states or with foreign governments. But perhaps most distressing, it did not have the power to maintain armed forces, a perilous defect for a young and infirm nation in a dangerous world. The 1786 to 1787 rebellion of Massachusetts small farmers, led by Daniel Shay, convinced the wealthy businesspeople and politicians of the young nation that they needed to redraft the Articles of Confederation.

In the 1620s the Pequot tribe seeked to control the trade routes in and around present day Connecticut by force. By the early 1630s, the English had arrived and wanted to break their hold on the trade routes. In 1636, an honest trader by the name of John Oldman was murdered by the Pequot tribe in an attempt to halt England’s expansion upon the trade routes. Many Englishmen felt that the Pequots killing of John Oldman was a their way to wage war against the English. The English felt that it was their turn to fight back.

The Articles of Confederation were brought into play in November of 1777 but did not make a clear statement that the Congress was to be a real government creating a war. Many of the so called states had a hard time dealing with this. There was no ways to find the necessary supplies and logistics for a war without the trade routes to Britain being open. Supply and demand was slim. The Americans mostly relied on the surplus of the items they took

Sunday, October 1, a day that may have changed America. More than 20,000 people are gathered for a country music festival on the main strip of Las Vegas. Following the performances of Eric Church and Sam Hunt, Jason Aldean takes the stage around 10:00. Minutes later, several explosions go off. Many concert-goers shrugged them off dismissively, thinking they were just fireworks going off in the distance. But then, many more of these explosions come. Soon, people begin to recognize that they were hearing gunshots. Unsure of where the bullets were coming from, panic mode sets in and everyone is running every which way, attempting to get to safety. Some are left temporarily paralyzed by terror on the ground.

The tragic events of September 11, 2001 have changed American lives forever. We have become more concerned with our physical safety because of the terror attacks in America and other countries. The economy continues to work to recover, due to the great hit it took as a result of the attacks of 9/11. American families are still adjusting to the personal and professional changes as a result of the terrorists attacks on 9/11. Prior to the September 11th attacks on America, Americans, like my mother, used to worry little about war, travel, or their freedom when conducting basic everyday activities; whereas post the events of 9/11, the thought of a terrorist attack is in the minds of everyone and has changed the way Americans live forever.

In 1675, the Algonquian Indians rose up in fury against the Puritan Colonists, sparking a violent conflict that engulfed all of Southern New England. From this conflict ensued the most merciless and blood stricken war in American history, tearing flesh from the Puritan doctrine, revealing deep down the bright and incisive fact that anger and violence brings man to a Godless level when faced with the threat of pain and total destruction. In the summer of 1676, as the violence dispersed and a clearing between the hatred and torment was visible, thousands were dead.(Lepore xxi) Indian and English men, women, and children, along with many of the young villages of

In my opinion these events in American history are the most important greatest to least first the Revolutionary war, next the attack of 9\11, then Apollo 11, constitution of 1992, and finally the civil war.

Once Bowdoin became governor he started once again collecting taxes and made things more difficult for the yeomen farmers while General Benjamin Lincoln raised funds in order to create a military that was going to put an end to the rebellion. The farmers moved to a third stage which was rebellion because they came to recognize the primarily different outlooks that existed between themselves and their government and decided to oppose the government rather than to rely upon the general court to influence change. The battles of Springfield, Petersham, and Sheffield are important because it led to the end of the rebellion. Shays’ Rebellion effect on the United States was that it showed severe weaknesses in the Articles of Confederation, and it led to its ratification. Szatmary gives the reader a clear, short, and well-structured explanation of the rebellion and of the developing extremism of Shays and his

“The main events surrounding the Pequot War occurred between 1637 and 1638. The parties involved were the Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth colonies, along with Native Americans from the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes, against the Pequot tribe.” In 1633 the Dutch negotiated a treaty to settle on the Connecticut River with the Pequot. Within a year after that, in 1634, the Pequot and Narragansett battled on the Connecticut River periodically. Two generals were killed at that time, and later they figured out that the Natives that killed two generals were tributaries of the Pequot Indians. This fueled the anger that led to the events of the war.