Stratford Laredo Massacre Analysis

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Next off there is the Boston Massacre. On December 5th, 1770. A rowdy group of colonists were in the streets. There were rumors of them attacking the customs house and an officer. To protect the customs house, some soldiers and an officer were sent. In the streets they were harassed and dared to fire. Soldiers were supposedly being pelted with ice and snow balls, clubs, etc., and through the commotion a soldier fired sparking other soldiers to fired and the killed five colonists in the streets. This was used as propaganda and promoted as if the British killed colonists in a cruel and inhuman fashion. The Boston Massacre was one of many events that helped cause the American Revolution.

I wrote this paper on the Ludlow Massacre. This paper explores the unsafe work situations that the Ludlow Natives had to deal with. They went on strike to protect their lives. Guards planned to attack protesters and began the massacre. A foxhole was dug to protect women and children from flying bullets as the massacre embarked, embracing one another and praying for life fifteen were killed at the bottom of the fox hole by kerosene which was distributed by the guards . Overall 19 innocent lives were lost after the Colorado National Guard attacked their camp for fighting for what they believe in.

The Mountain Meadow Massacre was the killing of roughly 120 immigrants who were passing through Southern Utah. Immigrant men, women and children were traveling from Arkansas to California and they were riding a Baker Fancher wagon train. Later that day they were killed by a group a Mormons with the help of local Paiute Indians. For a century and a half the Mountain Meadow Massacre has shocked and distressed those who have learned of it. I wouldn’t blame them because this was something brutal. This tragedy deeply grieved the victim’s relatives, burdened the perpetrator's’ descendants and Church members generally with sorrow and feelings of collective guilt, unleashed criticism

The Meeker Massacre of 1879, though viewed as a single violent altercation between Indian Agent Nathanial Meeker and the Utes of Colorado, presents a wider narrative of understanding how altercations over land reflect deeper value systems regarding environments. The changing nature of the land on which the Ute Reservation resided further complicated U.S.-Ute relations. In looking at the events leading up to and following the Massacre, historians can better understand what the Utes and federal government were looking for, and why it was so difficult to agree upon what they had found. Historians can also realize how the conflict may have not been avoided even with other considered factors. The Ute wars were not just about the Utes and agents

"...he really thought they did fire to defend themselves." The Bloody Massacre was a killing of five people and six others were wounded. A more commonly known name is the Boston Massacre. This was also a key event that led to the start of the Revolutionary War.

With the sun rising on a morning in May of 1636, roughly 500 Pequot men, women, and children lay slaughtered on the ground. This was the outcome of the Mystic Fort Battle. The Puritans in New England thought they were entitled to the land and resources that the Native Americans had. With the smallpox epidemic killing thousands of Native Americans who were not prepared for the disease, the Puritans; especially John Winthrop thought that this was God's way of telling the Puritans that this land was meant for them and not the Native Americans (Edwards).

Did you know, the bloodiest labor confrontation (The Everett Massacre) occurred in Washington state, on November 5th, 1916? Well, it’s true! That Sunday, a group called the Wobblies went on ships from Seattle, Washington to Everett, Washington. The biggest causes of the Everett Massacre are assumptions, fear, and most importantly, dissatisfaction.

A little more than 35 years ago, a man named Jim Jones shocked the world when he led almost 1,000 of his followers in an act of mass suicide; amongst those dead were more than 270 children1. On November 18, 1978, Jones and his followers drank Kool-Aid laced with cyanide in what he had presented to them as a peaceful escape to injustices of this world. The Jonestown Massacre was an incredible tragedy that sent waves through the whole world. Though the event was tragic, scholars have used our knowledge of what happened in order to deepen our understanding of cults, religions, and how both can influence people’s decisions.

Lalita Tademy is an interesting case of a writer, as she has a large amount of potential source material at her disposal due to her family history, the Colfax Massacre is one of those source materials. Lalita has a rich family history that puts her distant relatives in the middle of one of the most overlooked and important moments in United States history. These relatives setup and attempted to protect the courthouse in Colfax 1873, but abruptly ended with the deaths of all the men in the building in a truly one sided battle. Lalita stated in an interview with NPR, “My aunt Ellen had told me at one point that our people were mixed up in the courthouse incident, and some got out and some didn’t.” This moment with her aunt could have been

On September of 2015 on the CSU Sacramento Campus a disagreement between a student and professor took place. The disagreement started when the student, Chiitaanibah Johnson who is a member of the Navajo and Maidu tribes, was offended by a statement made to the class by the U.S. History professor. Johnson stated in an interview with Vincent Schilling (2015) of Indian Country Today Media Network “He was talking about Native America and he said the word genocide. He paused and said ‘I don't like to use that word because I think it is too strong for what happened’ and ‘genocide implies that it was on purpose and most native people were wiped out by European diseases.’”. Johnson then researched the topic, gathered evidence and presented the information

In the weeks and months that passed groups of men began arriving from other towns. All debating whether or not they should go after the captives and retake them. All agreed that if they did this they would surly kill all especially the Reverend and his family.

The Ludlow Massacre of 1914 is one of the bloodiest strike in the American labor history. Historians have debated whether the event was a massacre of innocent lives caused by the Colorado Fuel & Iron (CF&I) or as a battle between the company workers and the company militiamen. The CF&I stated that the event was an act of its workers to demilitarize the company and to prevent importation of “strikebreakers”. However, Thomas Andrews’ Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War introduces the concept of workscape in which gives an understanding of the event internally, above the surface and underground the mines of Colorado. Within the book, the operation of Colorado coal companies in capitalizing the coal industry lead to the formation of the mine workscape in which united coal miners underground the mines and above the surface to fight for industrial and political rights. This paper would define the concept of workscape in the definition given by Andrews, and provide evidence of the responsibility of the exploitation of capitalism in forming the mine workscape in the Colorado coal fields between the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. Furthermore, the closer inspection of several events that occurred within and outside the grounds of the Colorado coal fields related to labor unrest with the knowledge of the concept of workscape will help understand the culmination of the Ludlow massacre within the larger history of capitalism. A careful investigation of the book and other

“Between the hours of nine and ten o’clock, being in my master’s house, was alarmed by the cry of fire, I ran down as far as the town-house, and then heard that the soldiers and the inhabitants were fighting in the alley… I then left them and went to King street. I then saw a party of soldiers loading their muskets about the Custom house door, after which they all shouldered. I heard some of the inhabitants cry out, “heave no snow balls”, others cried “they dare not fire”. The Boston massacre has been no massacre it was propaganda. The incident that happened March 5th, 1770 in the streets of Boston only killed five people and had six people with non fatal injuries. There were

As Gallo mentions “In a new 48-page federal indictment, U.S. Authorities charge El Chapo and his top lieutenant, Ismael “el mayo” Zambada, with ordering 12 killings and dozens of other acts of violence to promote the Sinaloa cartel’s criminal activities. The two drug kingpins ordered the killings of Mexican law enforcement agents, members of the military, public officials, and rival drug cartel leaders, the indictment alleges”