Outline for Plymouth Essay

I. Introduction
A. The founding of English colonies in modern Massachusetts combined a strange mix of idealism and violence.

B. Miles Standish contributed important protection to the early colonies by using violence.

C. Benjamin Church provided vital leadership to protect the colonies during King Philip's War.

D. Despite all of this violence, the colonies were also founded on religious idealism.

E. 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. Miles Standish contributed important protection to the early colonies by using violence
B. Killed Wittawumac with his own knife
C. Went in the indians camp looking for Squanto in the middle of the night
D. Standish was planning an attack and was going to kill all the indians he saw in that day
E. Violence was used to protect the people of these colonies. They did not try to talk it out because that was unheard of during that time. Violence was all they knew. This is important because we have to know how they fought and protected themselves.

III. Second Major Point
A. Benjamin Church provided vital leadership to protect the colonies during King Phillip's War
B. Respected the people that he killed.
C. 20 indians defeated 300 indians without losing a man. Good leader
D. Church captured Anawon with only 6 men.
E. To show Church's great leadership there had to be violence. He didn't show great leadership in time of peace but in time of battles and killing. This is important because we see the leadership of this time and how they succeeded.

IV. Third Major Point
A. Despite all of this violence, the colonies were also founded on religious idealism.
B. The Pilgrims were Puritan and had strict religious beliefs.
C. "City on a hill"-everyone watches them
D. They came to find religious freedom so they weren't looking for violence
E. They didn't come looking for violence because they had strong religous beliefs but they had to fight to protect what they were building and trying to start.

V. Conclusion
A. The English colonies were mostly founded on violence. But they were also founded on idealism.
B. Miles Standish did use violence to help the colonies. To keep them safe.
C. Benjamin Church protected the colonies during King Phillip's war. He used violence and leadership to help them.
D. Violence wasn't the only thing that these colonies were founded on. They were also founded on religious idealism.
E. This is all important because many believe that America was started when the Pilgrim's came to America and began these colonies. To know the history and what happened is very important. We need to know how they started these colonies and what they were based on.