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. Standish and his men where after Corbitant because he thought he was they were trying to fight agaisnt the pisggrams. He ended up surrounding the wigwams and scaring the indains so bad that they were trying to get out anyway they could, they were trying to run out of the walls.
C. He killed Wicawaset when they invited him to dinner and he stabed him with his own knife.
D. Threatens mortan that he will kill him if he doesnt get rid of the colony. and the pilgrams dont agree with this.
E. all of this shows how Mile Standish was violient with eveything he did towards the indains. It provies how he was trying to protect the pilgrams. He also used violence to start the colony.


III. Second Major Point
A. Benjamin Church provided vital leadership to protect the colonies during King Philip's War.
B. Benjamin Church captured 60 indians with just 6 men to protect the colony.
C. he also saved his 20 men and got them across the river, when there was around 300 men trying to kill them.
D. Benjamin tries and puts phlip on a post. he kills king phlip in the end, because he was a threat to the colony that he was trying to build.
E. Benjamin Church showed his leadership quilties when he takes over, and shows his men that he will protect them.

IV. Third Major Point
A. Despite all of this violence, the colonies were also founded on religious idealism.
B. They all thought that it was right for everyone to be a puritan, they wanted everyone to be a puritan.
C. they came to this new place because they wanted religous freedom for themselves.
D. they wanted everyone to be able to read and write because they wanted everyone to read
the bible. And they all founded the school of Harvard, which started out as just a bible school.
E. His leadership helped protect the colonies and made them posibile for them to contiue to be safe.


V. Conclusion
A. All of the English found the colony by using violence and ideaism.
B. when Mile Standish procted the pisgrams from the indians and two men that he thought would kill them.
C. Benjamin Church showed how brave he was, and how much of a leader he was.
D.
E. it shows how this is different story than what people think of how this country started out, it would be a little darker than most people would think.





The founding of English colonies in modern Massachusetts combined a strange mix of idealism and violence. The story of Mile Standish shows many different things including; 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, and also Despite all of this violence, the colonies were also founded on religious idealism. This all ties into American history because 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 contributed important protection to the early colonies by using violence. Miles Standish and his men where after Corbitant because he thought he was trying to fight agaisnt his men which were the pisggrams. He ended up surrounding the wigwams and scaring the indains so bad that they were trying to get out anyway they could, they were trying to run out of the walls. Miles Standish also killed Wicawaset when they invited him to dinner and he stabed him with his own knife. This happened because Wicawaset was trying to make friends with him, because he thought that it would make it so they wouldn't fight him. All of these actions show how Mile Standish was violient with eveything he did towards the indains. He never wanted them anywhere the pilgrams. It provies how he was trying to protect the pilgrams. He also used violence to start the colony.
Benjamin Church provided vital leadership to protect the colonies during King Philip's War. Benjamin Church captured 60 indians with just 6 men to protect the colony. He also saved his 20 men and got them across the river, when there was around 300 men trying to kill them. Benjamin tries and puts King Philip on a post trying to kill him. He ends up killing King Philip in the end, because he was a threat to the colony. The colony that Benjamin Church was trying to build. He didn't want anyone getting in the way of building his colony. Benjamin Church showed his leadership quilties when he takes over, and shows his men that he will protect them. And also taking everything in his own has instead of putting things on other people to do. This is because he wants to keep his colony and not have any of this men killed.
Despite all of this violence, the colonies were also founded on religious idealism. They all thought that it was right for everyone to be a puritan, they wanted everyone to be a puritan. They came to this new place because they wanted religous freedom for themselves, and they also thought that no one else would want to be anyother type of religium than they did. All of them wanted everyone to be able to read and write. This was because everyone was had to read the bible. They thought everything should be religious. Also they all founded the school of Harvard, which started out as just a bible school. Benjamin Churchs leadership helped protect the colonies and made them posibile for them to contiue to be safe.
All of the English found the colony by using violence and ideaism. When Mile Standish procted the pisgrams from the indians and two men that he thought would kill them. Benjamin Church showed how brave he was, and how much of a leader he was. It shows how this is different story than what people think of how this country started out, it would be a little darker than most people would think.