Massacre At Mystic Summary
Massacre at Mystic
The event of the Massacre at Mystic on 1637 is a big date to remember, because it changed the history of America. Not only did it altered it, but also changed the Pequot’s entire nation, economics and political views in New England. It also changed relationship between colonist and the Indians forever. This was a war of the England and the Indians which attacked a fort at Mystic Connecticut. This was the first time that the English had ever attacked to slaughter.
The Pequot were the richest, wealthiest, respected, most feared, and organized. They also had a gift of trade and expansion. The Pequot like sharing so they trade with cloth, kettle corn was what they wanted from the English. On the other hand the English wanted
beads and jewelry which were wampum.
When John Olden was killed in 1636 the England thought it was the Pequot’s and saw it as an excuse to attack them kill a couple of natives and to be warning to them. The English were taught to kill completely so that the enemy could not come back.
1637 of May was when the tension of the English settlers and the Pequot’s grew. The English recruited other natives that were allies of the Pequot’s, but the natives didn’t know was what they were getting into. On May 26, 1637 around dawn the English and the allied natives were ready to attack the Pequot’s under the command of John Underhill and John Mason.
The Massacre of Mystic marked a history between the English and the natives from that day forward, trust, and loyalty was lost from that day. The English still continued to slaughter even later killing the natives that helped them kill the Pequot’s this war was called, King Philips War which was on 1676. Again the English attacked in 1813, Battle of Thames. The Massacre of mystic altered the history of the United States because it was the first massacre of the English which would continue for 200 hundred years all across the country. The English either pushed or killed to gain the territory. In 1950 Connecticut officially and legally erased the Pequot’s nation. Pequot’s that survived had to deny that they were Pequot’s. Later the ones that survived lifted the Pequot’s nation when they got the 800 acre of land and built a casino which is the most successful casino called Bingo Hall and in 1986 and started to bring money and got governor services.
The event of the Massacre at Mystic on 1637 is a big date to remember, because it changed the history of America. Not only did it altered it, but also changed the Pequot’s entire nation, economics and political views in New England. It also changed relationship between colonist and the Indians forever. This was a war of the England and the Indians which attacked a fort at Mystic Connecticut. This was the first time that the English had ever attacked to slaughter.
The Pequot were the richest, wealthiest, respected, most feared, and organized. They also had a gift of trade and expansion. The Pequot like sharing so they trade with cloth, kettle corn was what they wanted from the English. On the other hand the English wanted
beads and jewelry which were wampum.
When John Olden was killed in 1636 the England thought it was the Pequot’s and saw it as an excuse to attack them kill a couple of natives and to be warning to them. The English were taught to kill completely so that the enemy could not come back.
1637 of May was when the tension of the English settlers and the Pequot’s grew. The English recruited other natives that were allies of the Pequot’s, but the natives didn’t know was what they were getting into. On May 26, 1637 around dawn the English and the allied natives were ready to attack the Pequot’s under the command of John Underhill and John Mason.
The Massacre of Mystic marked a history between the English and the natives from that day forward, trust, and loyalty was lost from that day. The English still continued to slaughter even later killing the natives that helped them kill the Pequot’s this war was called, King Philips War which was on 1676. Again the English attacked in 1813, Battle of Thames. The Massacre of mystic altered the history of the United States because it was the first massacre of the English which would continue for 200 hundred years all across the country. The English either pushed or killed to gain the territory. In 1950 Connecticut officially and legally erased the Pequot’s nation. Pequot’s that survived had to deny that they were Pequot’s. Later the ones that survived lifted the Pequot’s nation when they got the 800 acre of land and built a casino which is the most successful casino called Bingo Hall and in 1986 and started to bring money and got governor services.