Massacre at the Mystic

3. They wanted to freedom to believe their religion. They expected there to be free land.

4. Division of Labor: All men and women were treated equal when it came to work, women did most of the work in the camp and the men spent most of their time hunting. Puritans the men did most of the labor and the women did house chores like cooking and cleaning.
Warfare: Puritans fought with guns and thought god wanted them to fight because that's what they thought was right, and a way to get rid of enemies. Pequots did practice fighting, they didn't think it was the right way to solve things.
Land and property: the Puritans believed you never owned land you were just using it. They believed it was something you would conquer. Pequots had a spiritual connection with their land as saw it as a gift.

5. The Dutch favored trade because they traded things that they needed unlike the British. The Dutch had a better relationship with the natives because they traded what they needed and treated them better because they wanted to be friends with the natives unlike the British, they wanted the natives gone.

12. More massacre accrued because it gave the idea of its ok for white people to kill natives and that it was ok to take their land even though they were there first.

1. Winthrop knew everything wasn't going to work in the beginning but he wanted it to be perfect. He wanted it to be a colony where everyone worked together and helped each other and no arguing. I believe that he will not reach a colony like he expects as fast as he wants it to be.

2. He thinks it will be a better society because it is built on christian values and god will watch over them.

3. The natives were defiantly not in Winthrop's mind when he wrote this. They treated the Natives as if they weren't human and as slaves. The Natives where not making Winthrop's vision happen because they weren't working with the Puritans.


Extended Activity
The Narragansetts escaped the epidemics for the most part. Smaller tribes suffered losses and the survivors became a part of the Narragansett tribe. The first documented contact with the Narragansetts took place in 1524 when Giovanni de Verrazano came to Rhode Island. The Narragansetts were one of the most powerful tribes in the area and offered protection to other tribes in exchange for goods or services. They had winter homes and summer homes. In the summer they would move inland for hunting, and in the winter they lived near the shore. Their culture was very similar to that of the Pequots, but they didn’t fare so badly in the wars. They tried to ally with the English rather than immediately being against them.
Scientific evidence shows Mohegan presence in Connecticut for over 10,000 years. At the time of European contact they were part of the Pequot tribe, but they soon separated. Mohegan means “wolf clan” in their language. Men were hunters and went to war. Women were farmers and also did most of the childcare and cooking. Both were storytellers and took part in art, medicine and music. Chiefs were men. Children had a lot of chores, and played games and with homemade dolls. The Mohegans favored collaboration with the English and became friends with them, starting an uneasy alliance. True to their word, they helped the English defeat the Pequots. This alliance kept the Mohegan people relatively safe during white vs. native wars.