American History King Philip's War: An Exercise In Failure In 1675, the Algonquian Indians rose up in fury against the Puritan Colonists, sparking a violent conflict that engulfed all of Southern New England. ... (Lepore 18) King Philip's war was not the basic Indian war that plagues American history. ... (Lepore 28) This angered Metacomet, sachem of the Algonquains, (also known as King Philip), to organize a party devoted to a forceful rebellion. John Sassamon, a devoted Indian Christian and a former friend and advisor to Metacomet, heard of this, and released the informati...

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The colony was called Jamestown established on the banks of the James River, named after King James I. ... In 1606 King James I of England granted the Virginia Company of London a charter to establish colonies in Virginia. ... Without the leadership of John Smith, they might have all perished. ... Without the presence of John Smith or Sir Thomas Gates, these settlers went through a very disastrous winter. ... Unlike John Smiths laws that were martial, these laws were civil laws but they carried a Puritan feel. ...

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This is exemplified by his 1177 failure to stop John de Courcey from annexing Down and Antrim. When John succeeded Richard as king in 1199 however, and the Lordship of Ireland was united with the English Kingship, he adopted a far more open and aggressively expansionist policy. ... As part of John's bestowments of lands, de Courcey was granted Ulster and the Geraldines, a sizeable portion of Munster. ... Loyal Irish Kings as a whole felt deeply betrayed, perfectly exemplified by the case of Dermot McCarthy, who lost his lands despite being the first Irish king to pay ho...

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When King Henry VII dissolved the Catholic Church and made the Church of England rendering the Pope powerless in all English affairs (Williams, 4), some people, non-conformists, were not happy. ... They were known by 3 different names, their leader William Bradford called them Pilgrims, those who held them in contempt called them Brownists, and to King James and his court they were known as Separatists (Williams, 48). ... John Winthrop who lead the fist great wave of settlers in the spring of 1630, published in England, before his departure, a declaration of the colonists" attachment and grat...

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Also around this time in 2700 BCE Gilgamesh was a Sumerian king who ruled the city-state of Uruk. 1335 BCE (Egypt or Mesopotamia)- Special sieves (for beer making) were found in the tomb of King Tutankhamen who died around this time. ... It was dated back to 5400 BCE. 3150 BCE (Egypt)- One of Egypt's earliest rulers, King Scorpion 1 was buried with around 700 jars of wine. 3000 BCE (Egypt)- Pharaohs acquired a taste for wine and established their own limited domestic production. 323 BCE (Greece)- It was said that heavy wine drinking caused Alexander the Great's death of a "myste...

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Andrews wrote," that the empire was not a single state made up of a mother country and her dependencies, but rather a group of states equal in status, with coordinate legislatures and a common king." ... England had it all: "an element of monarchy, the king, an element of aristocracy, the House of Lords, and an element of democracy, the House of Commons."... Compromises were reached concerning the extent of the King's power and also the relationship between church and state (Church of England). ... The most influential writers of that left-wing libertarian group were John Trenchard and Th...

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Following the establishment of King Henry VII's efforts to control England both politically and religiously titled the English Reformation, there was turmoil throughout. ... The Puritans means of achieving their godly society was by establishing a "City upon a hill" as described by their leader John Winthrop (75). ... However the first New England colony, Massachusetts had both a political and religious leader, John Winthrop. John Winthrop was the founder of the Puritan colony, as well as the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony. ...

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The times are more structured; consider the rule of the king verses a republican form of government. ... While the colonies are educating its younger people with strict rules and regulations, the Quakers had developed a type of family life that echoes John Locke's ideas on child rearing. ...

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Henry had suppressed the monasteries creating an abundant of wealth to reward the king's followers, which obviously did not do much for the spiritual feelings of the nation. ... The "non separatists" had a similar event aboard their ship, the Arbella, with John Winthrop who formed and preached his vision of what they were to accomplish in America. ...

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In a period when political and religious ideas were enmeshed and differences entrenched, the ascension of a Protestant Queen to a religiously confused nation was precarious. Despite the brevity of Mary's reign, she had managed legislatively to reassemble Catholicism. Following a decade of religious...

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