“Wounded Knee Massacre” Melinda Belcher May 2‚ 2010 In 1848 a series of gold and silver discoveries signaled the first serious interest by white settlers in the arid and semiarid lands beyond the Mississippi‚ where many Indian nations had been forced to migrate. To open more land‚ federal officials introduced in 1851 a policy of “concentration.” Tribes were pressured into signing treaties limiting the boundaries of their hunting grounds to “reservations” The Sioux tribe was limited to the
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The My Lai Massacre The My Lai massacre was the mass murder of up to 500 innocent Vietnamese civilians on the 16th of March 1968 during the American-Vietnam war. This incident is one of the most infamous events of the War‚ and prompted global outrage when it became public knowledge in November 1969. The cover up and injustice following the event has gone down in history as one of the most infamous events of that War and prompted global outrage when it became public knowledge in November 1969. It
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Robert Darnton Great Cat Massacre - booknotes on Chapters 2‚ 3‚ 4 Chapter 2 Workers Revolt - The Great Cat Massacre of the Rue Saint-Severin Story of the great cat massacre told by Nicolas Contat‚ main figures - 2 fictionalized figures Jerome and Leveille‚ apprentices in the shop of Jacques Vincent.75 killing the cats as a way of getting back at the master‚ stood out as the most hilarious experience in Jerome’s career.75-7 But how could 18th C. mind find such cruelty hilarious? Certainly
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Griffin Bassman Form V Mr. Jasikoff 5/18/13 The Massacre At My Lai Starting in 1964‚ the war at Vietnam seemed necessary and useful‚ in the minds of the public. After years of combat‚ the American opinion slowly worsened‚ and by 1967‚ the war was highly questionable. The public support was completely lost after the information of the gruesome massacre at My Lai was leaked. During all of this‚ the American public was trying to figure out how the Americans who partook in this event became so
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JALLIANWALA BAGH MASSACRE-- In the Indian history of freedom struggle for independence many great warriors laid down their life. There is a record of every incident. One of the most tragic incident in the history is the Jallianwala Bagh massacre which took place in Amritsar (Punjab). Winston Churchill stated this account as "’The incident in Jallian walaBagh was an extra ordinary event‚ a monstrous event‚ an event which stands in a singular and silver stone isolation......" The most heartbreaking
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There is no doubt that this was one of the most appalling displays of bloodshed in history; but who is to blame for the instigation of this deplorable event? I believe that it was the British soldiers of the 29th regiment who initiated the Boston Massacre. Although the soldiers were somewhat provoked by the crowd on king street and by the ropewalk workers‚ the soldiers had a responsibility‚ and were duty-bound to keep peace‚ not to kill innocent civilians. The British also had an irresponsible‚ hot
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Virginia Tech Massacre On April 16th‚ 2007 on the campus of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg‚ Virginia‚ America’s deadliest random act of violence occurred. Seung-Hui Cho shot and killed thirty-two people and wounded 15 others. After the attacks he later shot and killed himself which makes the total amount of deaths thirty-three people. This massacre is the most deadly shooting by a single gunman in United States history. Students were getting ready to go to class just like any other day. However
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The Virginia Tech massacre ‘’You caused me to do it …’’ – Seung-Hui Cho About the Virginia Tech massacre The Virginia Tech massacre was a school shooting that took place on April 16‚ 2007 on the campus of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and state University in Blacksburg.
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killed during the Boston Massacre and thus believed to be the first casualty of the American Revolution. Who Was Crispus Attucks? Crispus Attucks is thought to have been born around 1723 in Framingham‚ Massachusetts. His father was likely a slave and his mother a Natick Indian. A 1750 ad in the Boston Gazette sought the recovery of a runaway slave named "Crispas‚" but all that is definitely known about Attucks is that he was the first to fall during the Boston Massacre on March 5‚ 1770. In 1888
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States was the Pontiac’s Rebellion school massacre which happened on July 26‚ 1764. In this school massacre‚ four Lenape American Indians entered the school‚ shoot and killed Enoch Brown‚ and killed nine or ten children. It is either nine or ten because the reports can be shifted and changed. Only three children survived. There have been worst serious cases where a shooting had managed to take the lives of a couple of people. The Virginia Tech Massacre which was on April 16‚ 2007 was one of the
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