the Pequot tribe to kick them out of their lands in order to receive their lands that were rich in furs. Bacon’s Rebellion was caused by a man named Nathaniel Bacon who wanted to fight the Natives to kick them off their lands. When the governor of Jamestown, William Berkeley, disagreed with attacking the colonists, Bacon attacked anyways with people who agreed with him. King Philip’s War started when the chief of the Pokunoket tribe died on english territory because of English expansion. Metacom, also
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3. When, where, and for what crime was the first person executed in America? Captain George Kendall was executed in Jamestown colony of Virginia in 1608 for being a Spanish spy. 4. Once the moratorium was lifted, when and where was the first execution in the US? Once the moratorium was lifted, Utah would be the first to execute Gary Gilmore in 1977. 5. How many states currently have the death penalty? 31 states currently have the death penalty. 6. What was decided regarding capital punishment in
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Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America Starting with the Emergence of Atlantic Creoles in the Chesapeake, The book opens by telling the story of Anthony Johnson, a slave from Jamestown, Virginia who gained his own freedom. Johnson eventually became a very successful farmer and ironically had slaves of his own. As a master now, Johnson provided food and shelter for his slaves while allowing them to buy freedom just as he had done. Some slave-owners were harsher
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The Bacon's Rebellion was one of the largest popular Rebellion that uprising prior to the American revolution. This large Rebellion had began as a dispute among the English settlers in Virginia Over the Americans Indian policy. The civil war had erupted pitting Anti- American Indian westerns settlers( this include that there were many slaves and servants in the anti-American civil war. Governor William Berkeley and his allies where encouraged more and more policy toward the indigenous people. In
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Cannabis, is the world’s most famous illicit drug. Many of young adults today use cannabis for recreational purposes. Culturally, cannabis has influenced a majority of the youth to become a part of a taboo. Socially, cannabis has its impact; individuals suffer from peer pressure from their friends. The use of marijuana is less harmful than other, legal drugs, such as alcohol and tobacco. However, marijuana is the most widely used in the world; it remains illegal almost everywhere in the world. Since
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Lucille Ball was born in Jamestown, New York, on 6 August 1911, and she will be remembered as the lovable, crazy, and accident-susceptible Lucy Rigardo, as presented in her television show. Lucille’s father died in 1915, when she was barely four years old, after he contracted typhoid fever (Peter). Henceforth, her mother took several jobs and was always busy, and Lucille and her brother had to be brought up by their grandparents. Lucille joined a drama school in New York and later found a modelling
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English colonization of the seventeenth century underwent remarkable complications demonstrated by settlement patterns and transformation of social structure. Specifically, throughout the settlement process, Indians experienced immense religious influence by the English and conflicted over both land and religious liberties. Also, as individuals emigrated from England to the Americas, challenging liberties concerning economic and societal structure began to surface. Furthermore, by delving deeper
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Why Marijuana Illegal Ever since the beginning of time there always has been something that has created a large amount of controversy; an issue that leaves households and countries divided. Should marijuana be legalized so it can be used for medicinal purposes? Marijuana has been used by people of royalty, "Emperor Shen-Nung in China prescribes cannabis for beri-beri, constipation, 'female weakness,' gout, malaria, rheumatism and absentmindedness” (Abel, 1982) and politicians, “I smoked but did
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Roanoke Colony The Roanoke Colony which is better known as the “Lost Colony” was an attempt to establish an English charter by Queen Elizabeth I on Roanoke Island in today’s Dare County, North Carolina, USA. When the settlement’s original organizer and financier died Sir Walter Raleigh took charge and began the expeditions. There were several attempts to establish the colony all of which failed for various reasons. The final attempt at a colony on Roanoke Island was ultimately a failure because
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existed more than a century before the founding of the United States in 1776. In 1865, following the American Civil War, slavery was outlawed in the United States and slaves became emancipated or freeman. The first English colony in North America, Jamestown, acquired its first African slaves in 1619 by the Dutch. Slavery was a one of the key factors which contributed to the American Civil War which lasted from 1861 to 1865. Once slaves became freeman, many states developed laws which were created to
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