There are tons of tragedies that have happened in the world. One of those tragedies is a tragedy that has shocked a lot of people, the Mountain Meadows Massacre. During the Mountain Meadows Massacre about 120 people were killed. The Mountain Meadows Massacre happened in 1857. That was approximately 158 years ago. It all started when a group of immigrants were traveling from Arkansas to California. The immigrants left in the April of 1857. They actually left near Harrison. They were apart of the Baker-Fancher Wagon train. They were going to California to start a new and better life. This whole tragedy happened in the Mountain Meadows of Utah. The Mountain Meadows is located 35 miles south west of Cedar City Utah. The immigrants went …show more content…
They were having to go through the mountain pass called Mountain Meadows. When they were traveling through it, all of a sudden some Mormons came out and attacked them. The attackers weren’t just Mormons though. Some of the Mormons talked the local Paiute Indians into helping them attack the immigrants. Some of the immigrants were killed , but the ones who weren’t killed pulled the wagons in a tight circle around them for protection. For five days they were surrounded by the local Mormons and Paiute …show more content…
The monument was built in 1990. it was the first monument to actually be built on the sight of the mountain meadows massacre . On the monument it list the names of the people who died and it also list the names of the kids that survived. The 1990 monument is located off of highway eighteen in Utah between the St. George and Enterprise. That area at one point of time was a old spanish trail and of course a California road. There is also a stone cairn. The stone cairn is where they gathered some of the remains and buried them. The original stone cairn had a cedar cross on it. There is also a 1999 monument which is a memorial grave sight. There are plaques at the 1999 memorial sites. One of the plaques says “Here lies twenty nine victims of the Mountain Meadows massacre Re-interred on 10 September 1999 by their descendents.” In 1936 The Centennial Commission and the Arkansas History Commission put a historical marker highway 7 about three miles south of Harrison,
The Great Pueblo revolt of 1680 all started with the droughts of 1660 when the Southwest had severe drought that brought famine and disease. During this, hungry Apaches who couldn’t find food on plains attacked the pueblos. This angered the people on the pueblos, but there new leader Pope’, a mysterious medicine doctor, tried to keep the Indian beliefs around and resisted the Christian religion. The Spaniards hated this, so they captured his older brother. This enraged Pope’ against the Spaniards so he held meetings to tell everybody that the Spaniards must leave. The Spaniards found out about this and arrested Pope, publicly flogged him and released him back to the pueblos. When he was captured, the pueblo people set fires in the Indian villages in New Mexico. To take care of the fires, the Spaniards sent troops to halt the ritual of setting the fires by pueblo people, and they arrested all of the medicine doctors, killing several of them. The people believed that the doctors protected them from evil, so all of the pueblo towns wanted to unite against the Spaniards. The group from the pueblos went to the governor of Santa Fe and told him that if the doctors that were imprisoned weren’t released by sundown, all of the Spaniards in New Mexico would be killed. They released the prisoners because the Indians outnumber the Spaniards by a huge amount.
Karr 's famous epigram plus ça change, plus c 'est la même chose stuck with me throughout reading Stephen Ash 's A Massacre in Memphis: The Race Riot That Shook the Nation One Year After the Civil War. In 1866, during the uneasy aftermath of the Civil War, Memphis was swept by an orgy of racial violence. How did it start? Armed white policemen sparked a confrontation with a group of young black men – many of whom were Union veterans. Sound familiar? By the time the situation was brought under control, the grim tally was: 46 African-Americans and three whites killed, 75 blacks injured, five black women raped, 100 blacks robbed, 96 homes destroyed, as well as four black churches and twelve black schools burned to the ground. Of the African-American
Cops busted Michael Gallagher, 56, who works as a plumber for New York City schools and the Metropolitan Opera House at a local 7-11 last night.
The Homestead Strike, also known as the Homestead Steel Strike, Pinkerton Rebellion, or Homestead Massacre, was an industrial lockout and strike which began on June 30, 1892, culminating in a battle between strikers and private security agents on July 6, 1892. The battle was one of the most serious disputes in U.S. labor history, third behind the Ludlow Massacre and the Battle of Blair Mountain. The dispute occurred at the Homestead Steel Works in the Pittsburgh area town of Homestead, Pennsylvania, between the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers and the Carnegie Steel Company. The result was a major defeat for the union and a setback for their efforts to unionize steelworkers.
Seung-Hui Cho was a 23 year old senior that studied English at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia. On April 16, 2007 Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people and injured 17 others in two separate attacks before taking his own life. This event is known as one of the deadliest shootings by a single gunman in the United States and worldwide.
One of the darkest times in American history was the conflict with the natives. A “war” fought with lies and brute force, the eviction and genocide of Native Americans still remains one of the most controversial topics when the subject of morality comes up. Perhaps one of the most egregious events to come of this atrocity was the Sand Creek Massacre. On the morning of November 29th, 1864, under the command of Colonel John Chivington, 700 members of the Colorado Volunteer Cavalry raped, looted, and killed the members of a Cheyenne tribe (Brown 86-94). Hearing the story of Sand Creek, one of the most horrific acts in American History, begs the question: Who were the savages?
Bernard Lefkowitz’s Our Guys raises a lot of issues, all of which have been discussed throughout this semester.
Have you ever heard the term, “Don’t drink the Kool-Aid?” or “You have drank the Kool-Aid.”? Well, ”Drinking the Kool-Aid” means you have done something that others have told you to do or did yourself. This saying comes from the cult society led by Reverend Jim Jones, named Jonestown. Jonestown was a small community in the jungle of Guyana, South America. After getting word of people coming to investigate the society, Jones had committed a mass suicide by poisoning Kool-Aid and giving it to the people of Jonestown.
On March 5, 1770 a fight broke out in the streets of Boston, Massachusetts between a patriot mob and British soldiers. Citizens attacked a squad of soldiers by throwing snowballs, stones and sticks. British Army soldiers in turn killed five civilians and injured six others. The presence of British troops had been stationed in Boston, the capital of Province of Massachusetts Bay since 17681. The British existence was increasingly unwelcome. The British troops were sent to Boston in order to protect and support the crown-appointed colonial officials attempting to enforce unpopular Parliamentary legislation.
The first pioneers came to Nebraska in the fall of 1872 and lived in dugouts for the winter. During the following year the pioneers started building log cabins from logs they had to transport over thirty miles because the land was mostly prairie. In the spring of 1873 there was a terrible blizzard that killed many people and cattle. In the following years the pioneers faced many other hardships. The next year after the blizzard they had grasshoppers destroy their grain and a prairie fire struck a few years later destroying the crops yet again. Although they faced many hardships the pioneers kept their faith in God and continued work on developing their community and church. Throughout the years they faced many other hardships from illness to floods. During the early years they were able to attract many people to settle there. They lived very hard lives filled with death and mourning, but they always tried to live and do “Christ-like” deeds to help the community and keep people happy and faithful to God. Although they had a hard time they were able to get a railroad built through their settlements and where able to
During the late 1840's California did not show much promise or security. It had an insecure political future, its economic capabilities were severely limited and it had a population, other than Indians, of less than three thousand people. People at this time had no idea of what was to come of the sleepy state in the coming years. California would help boost the nation's economy and entice immigrants to journey to this mystical and promising land in hopes of striking it rich.
In Alexander Henry’s “The Massacre at Fort Michilimackinac”, he describes how the Indians massacred the soldiers and people at Fort Michilimackinac, he characterizes the Indians in the retelling differently — some as positive and some as negative. In Terry Goldie’s article “Semiotic Control: Native People in Canadian Literature”, Goldie discusses the characterization of Native people using 5 techniques: violence, sexuality, orality, mysticism, and prehistoric-ness — he discusses how these techniques are used to portray Native people in a negative light. In the paragraph where we see Wa’wa’tam for the second time (after twelve months have elapsed), his behaviour is off and he is acting odd— Henry shrugs this off are simply “the peculiarities
Throughout history, events are sparked by something, which causes emotions to rise and tensions to come to a breaking point. The Boston Massacre was no exception; America was feeling the pressure of the British and was ready to break away from the rule. However, this separation between these two parties would not come without bloodshed on both sides. The British did not feel the American had the right to separate them from under British rule, but the Americans were tired of their taxes and rules being placed upon them and wanted to succeed from their political tyrants. The Boston Massacre would be the vocal point in what would be recognized, as the Revolutionary War in American history and the first place lives would be lost for the cost of liberty. Even though the lives were lost that day, eight British soldiers were mendaciously accused of murder when it was clearly self-defense. People who are placed in a situation where their lives are threatened have the right to defend themselves. History does not have the right to accuse any one event those history may have considered the enemy guilty when they are fighting for their lives.
A dress-up party in Texas turned deadly when the host of the party, dressed as Santa Claus, began shooting at his guests. By the end of his shooting spree, he had killed one person and injured three others.
Throughout the book, the Chippewa Indians are caught in conflicts with the “whites”. They attempt to convert their religion to Christianity,