Exam #2: The founding of the english colonies.

I. Introduction
A. Thesis statement [sample: The founding of English colonies in modern Massachusetts combined a strange mix of idealism and violence.]
B. Preview first major point (without support) [Miles Standish contributed important protection to the early colonies by using violence.]
C. Preview second major point (without support) [ Benjamin Church provided vital leadership to protect the colonies during King Philip's War.]
D. Preview third major point (without support) [Despite all of this violence, the colonies were also founded on religious idealism.]
E. Significance of Thesis [It is important to understand the full history of these areas because this is what Americans generally consider to be our nation's beginning.]
II. First Major Point
A. Statement of position (or point)
B. Detail of support
C. Detail of Support
D. Detail of Support
E. Significance of position (how it relates to thesis?)
III. Second Major Point
A. Statement of position (or point)
B. Detail of support
C. Detail of Support
D. Detail of Support
E. Significance of position (how it relates to thesis?)
IV. Third Major Point
A. Statement of position (or point)
B. Detail of support
C. Detail of Support
D. Detail of Support
E. Significance of position (how it relates to thesis?)
V. Conclusion
A.
B. Restate significance of first position
C. Restate significance of second position
D. Restate significance of third position
E. Summary of paper (why is it important)


The founding of English colonies in modern Massachusetts combined a strange mix of idealism and violence. Miles Standish contributed important protection to the early colonies by using violence. Benjamin Church provided vital leadership to protect the colonies during King Philip's War. Despite all of this violence, the colonies were also founded on religious idealism. It is important to understand the full history of these areas because this is what Americans generally consider to be our nation's beginning.

Miles Standish used violence in a way to protect the early colonies. Standish was a very tiny but hot tempered man. When he went to a feast with an indian Pecksuot Standish snatched Pecksuot’s knife from him and with it stabbed its him, only because pecksuot was after standish to begin with. He would carry a costume soward with him everywhere he went and which it would be hung around his neck. Miles Standish fought as a young man against the Spanish in the Netherlands, learning his military trade and developing his leadership. This helps the thesis statement because it shows how ruthless and mean Miles Standish actually was back then.

Benjamin Church, he provided nessecary leadership during king philips war to protect the colonies. Church was a skilled and respected surgeon he also was a man of God and loyal to his King. He has opionions on the war and it was that they were bad, he did not like fighting and thought that they should be done and/or ended quickly. Many Indians surrendered to Church during Philip's War under his promise that they would be treated kindly. Though that promise was not somthing that he could keep. The Government sold all of Church's Indian captives into slavery to help pay for the costs of the war, except the warriors who later they would hang. If he had not been the hero of Philip's War, they might have hung Church as a traitor or banished from Plymouth for questioning the Government policy. This also is important to the thesis because it shows that Benjamin Church had different leadership qualitys and abilitys that Miles Standish did not use, he had more sympathy for people.

Religous idealism, most people back in mass. were your typical christians and would be in church and a "person of god". People that believed in christianity were usually strong believers and it would be said crude if missed out in a church service, unlike today you have so many types of religons. In this time it would seem like Miles Standish was probably a christian but not as much so as Benjamin Church. Religon has alot to do with a way the colony may act not only to each other but to others coming in. This is important to the thesis because it shows where people stood when it came to religon in these points of life.

The history of our nation is appropriate for people to know, it is important that this is well taught today. This is the way that the place we live in now is brought up. There has been a huge dramatic change in the economy sence then, and it is amazing how we can look back and say wow, i cant believe this happened here, or that we behaved like that and it was ok.