Nantucket, Massachusetts

Patwin is the native language of the Wintun people. Ancestors of these people arrived in Central Valley and Northern California around 1400 BCE. The Patwin had similar language with the Nomlaki and Wintu. The Patwin are the most southern of these groups and are sometimes called the Southern Wintun. (Patwin) The Patwin tribe were broken into two groups; the Hill Patwin that lived in the coastal ranges and the River Patwin that resided in the Sacramento Valley. (Quail) These people like most Native Americans during this time took advantage of their surroundings. Traded fish and sea shells and other goods with other local tribes. They were hunter, gatherers, and extremely productive fisherman, taking advantage of the nearby river and ocean. They were talented craftsman also making baskets, fishing nets, boats, and rafts (West.) Their peaceful lifestyle abruptly stopped with the arrival of hunters and explorers, and missionaries that were all attracted to the land. Missionaries enslaved these people and introduced them into an abusive and degrading life. This area was also very popular to hunters and trappers due to the amount of fur-bearing animals. Unfortunately, these invaders brought disease with them; such as Small Pox’s, and Malaria and epidemics swept through the land (West, Quail, Yocha.) “By the time the epidemics had been contained, the Native American population in the Sacramento Valley had dropped from 60,000 to 20,000 people” (West.) By the 1800’s…

by a jeering crowd.He reacted by hitting one of them his musket. The crowd grew larger, and eight redcoats came to rescue White. A redcoat fired into the crowd, possibly by accident, and the people panicked. In the chaos that followed, five men were killed. Samuel Adams later described the event as a massacre. “Ran away from his Master William Brown from Framingham,on the 30th of Sept. last, a Molatto Fellow, about 27 Years of age, named Crispus, 6 Feet two Inches high, short curl’d Hair, his…

Province of Massachusetts Originally Massachusetts was an English colony in North America, founded in 1628, by a group of puritans escaping persecution, until 1961 when it became the Province of Massachusetts and in 1776 seceded from England to be one of the original 13 states of America. The name Massachusetts comes from the Indian tribe, the Massachusett, an Algonquian tribe living in the area of Massachusetts bay. “at the great hill” or “at the range of hills” is its translation, referring to…

New England vs. the Chesapeake Region (DBQ) Settlers arrived to the Chesapeake region only to be greeted by unhealthy lands full of despair and labor. New Englanders, on the other hand, were welcomed by fresh air and clean water. As the years passed, the state of these two lands stabilized a bit with each other, but the people’s way of living in these regions did not. New England and the Chesapeake region developed differently because of the types of people who came to each of these places,…

Many colonies developed along the coast of America, however, the earliest and perhaps most influential by the English were Virginia (notably the Chesapeake area) and New England (with Massachusetts the hearth of society). They shared many characteristics such as desiring the rights of Englishmen which entails struggles with their homeland. However, there were stark differences by their lifestyles through the Chesapeake’s landownership and New England’s church based politics, the social ideals of…

write about this era is none other than Nathaniel Hawthorne. In his story Young Goodman Brown Hawthorne uses setting, symbolism, theme, and mood to describe a man’s struggle in fighting evil’s urges to make him stray away from his faith. Especially, in a time where religious control and accusations were at an all time high. Although this story is fiction, it may be a good depiction of how some individuals felt psychologically during such social disorder. Every story has to have a setting. It…

“Henry David Thoreau devoted his energies to exploring the spiritual relationship between humanity and nature and to living by his political and social beliefs.” As said by Sam Erickson. Thoreau was a transcendentalist and is known today as one of the “Big Three” in American Literature along with Walt Whitman and Ralph Emerson. Thoreau devoted his life to explore the importance of humanity and nature. For two years Thoreau lived in a cabin he built at Walden Pond. It was here where he wrote…

The New Englanders desired a place where they prosper together as a community. They were more than concerned about the moral health of the whole community and would do whatever was called for to keep their community strong and happy. "This court … in the interim recommends [that] all tradesmen and laborers consider the religious end of their callings, which is that receiving such moderate profits as may enable them to serve God and their neighbors", DOC. E, this shows that they would give their…

The “American Dream” is a recurrent phrase that used in different ways as time goes on. Liberty, freedom, equality and prosperity are just some of the words used to define this phrase. In the past, the American Dream’s main purpose for citizens was to build a stable lifestyle and become better in life than the previous generations. In today’s era one of the examples of the American Dream is the There are many ways the American dream can be brought up in today’s era, such as citizens having the…

married Dr. Theodor Homberger, Erikson’s pediatrician. Erikson studied art and many languages and was not too fond of school, so he decided against going to college. Erikson however, did graduate high school, was interested in art and 1920, he began to travel Europe on his quest to be an artist. His traveling art journey was short-lived, and Erikson returned to Germany to enroll in art school. Erikson stayed at the art school for several years, so he began to teach art and other subjects to…