EARLY COLONIAL MASSACRES

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EARLY COLONIAL MASSACRES   1539 MABILA
(4000-5000 Amerindians /Ais killed) 1565
MATANZAS (500 AIs) 1610 PASPAHEGH (15-30
AIs) 1622 JAMESTOWN MASSACRE (347
settlers) 1637 MYSTIC (600 AIs) 1675 KING
PHILIPS WAR (over 600 colonists and 3,000 AIs)
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THE INDIAN QUESTION 1-2

• 1690 French and Iroquois Destroy Schenectady
  New York
• (60 Colonialists killed)
• 1757 Fort William Henry (70-180 British and
  colonial prisoners)
• 1778 Cherry Valley (New York) Massacre (30
  settlers)
• 1782 Gnadenhutten Massacre of Christian
  Delewares by Pennsylvania Militia (100)
• 1813 River Raison (Detroit) Massacre (30-60
  settlers)
• 1818 Chehaw Affair (1st Seminole War)
  non-hostile village (50)
• 1832 The Black Hawk (Old Northwest) War (850)

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THE INDIAN QUESTION 2-2
1838 - Killough (Texas) Massacre (18 settlers
killed) 1862 Santee Sioux Uprising (800
settlers killed) 1863 Beat River (Preston
Idaho) Massacre, (200) 1864 Sand Creek
(Colorado) Massacre (160) 1850-1860 Indian
Hunting in California (5000) 1870 Marias
(Montana) Massacre (200) 1871 - Tucson (Camp
Grant) Massacre (118) 1890 Wounded Knee (South
Dakota) Massacre (300)

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TUCSON (CAMP GRANT) MASSACRE
April 30, 1871
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SAND CREEK MASSACRE
November 29, 1864
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INDIAN HUNTING IN CALIFORNIA 1850-1860 5000
Killed
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MURDER OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN SOLDIERS BY THE
CONFEDERACY
July 17, 1862 U.S. Congress - Militia Act
authorizing citizenship for black
soldiers 54th/56th Mass Regiments formed May 30,
1863 Confederate Congresss Policy of Executing
officers commanding black units June 7,
1863 Battle of Millikena Bend (Louisiana)
Gen Richard Tylor CSA Aug. 12, 1863 Confederate
Secretary of War letter to Lt. Gen. Kirby Smith
(CSA) initiating the Trans-Mississippi
command policy to kill all blacks captured
in uniform. April 12, 1864 Fort Pillow Massacre
( Tennessee), (100) Gen Nathon Bedford
Forrest CSA April 18, 1864 Poison Springs
Massacre (Arkansas), Gen Samuel Bell
Maxey CSA April 17-20, 1864 Confederate
Recapture of Plymouth, N.C. (40-50)   Gen
R.F. Hoke CSA June 25, 1864 Battle of the Crater
(Petersburg, Virginia)   Gen William Mahone
CSA October 2, 1864 Battle of Saltville,Virginia
(100) Gen Felix Huston Robertson, CSA
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RACE RIOTS AGAINST AFRICAN-AMERICANS
1863 - New York Draft Riots (108 deaths / ½ dozen
lynchings) 1866 - Memphis, TN (46 Killed) 1866 -
New Orleans (34 Killed) 1898 - Wilmington, N. C.
(30 Killed) 1906 - Atlanta, Ga. (12 Killed) 1908
- Springfield, Ill. (6 Killed) 1917 - East St.
Louis, Ill. (100-200) Killed) 1919 - Chicago,
Ill. 1919 - Chicago, Ill. (38 Killed) 1919 - The
Red Summer 26 race riots (over 100 killed) in
Chicago, Illinois Washington, D.C. Elaine,
Arkansas Charleston, South Carolina Knoxville
and Nashville, Tennessee and Longview, Texas
1921 - Tulsa, Okla. (150-250) Killed) 1923 -
Rosewood, Florida (8 Killed) 1943 - Detroit,
Mich. (28 killed)
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The Ku Klux Klan 1866 - Founded in the town of
Pulaski, Tennessee 1867 - A former Confederate
General named Nathan Forest became the
Grand Wizard, commander in chief of the KKK 1915
- The Birth of  a Nation 1925 March on
Washington 40,000 (Over 1 million members)
Lynching 1882 - 1968 4,743 persons died of
lynching, 3,446 of them black men
and women. 1882 to 1901 100 per year
average.
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EPISODES OF INDUSTRIAL VIOLENCE 1-2
1820s-1840s canal workers in the northeast
1862-77 Molly Maguires, Pennsylvania (10)

1874 Tompkins Square Riot, New York
City 1877 The Great Railroad Strike (100/30)
1885 Massacre of Chinese, Rock Springs (28)
1886 Haymarket, Chicago (67/11) 1892
Homestead, Pennsylvania (10) Couer
d'Alene, Idaho (unk) 1894 Pullman, Chicago (57
13) 1897 Lattimer, Pennsylvania (36/19) 1898
Virden, Illinois. (25/14) 1902 Scabherders
massacre workers in Pana, Illinois. (22/14) 1902
Pennsylvania anthracite strike 1903 Troops were
dispatched to Cripple Creek, Colorado to
control rioting by striking coal miners.
1904 Dunnville, Colorado
(4)
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EPISODES OF INDUSTRIAL VIOLENCE 2-2 1912 IWW
Strike. Lawrence, Massachusetts 1913 IWW
Strike, Patterson, New Jersey
1913-14 Ludlow, Colorado
(74) 1916
Everett Massacre of IWWs in Washington
(50/11)1917 / 1919 IWW organizers lynched
Frank Little in Butte, Montana and
Wesley Everest shot in Centralia,Washington
during attack by Legionnaires on IWW hall.
(2) 1920 The Battle of Matewan, Virginia. Armed
rebellion of 10,000 West Virginia coal
miners (9) 1920 Wall
Street bombing 1922 Herrin Illinois Massacre
(36) 1932 Dearborn (Ford River Rouge Plant)
Massacre (4)
1933 Pixley,
California IWW Cotton Strike (4)
1934 International Longshoremans union
strike in San Francisco (2)

1937 Memorial Day Massacre" at the
Republic Steel plant in Chicago.
(30/10)
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ANTI-IMMIGRATION VIOLENCE
1834 Burning of Ursuline Convent
(Charlestown, Mass) 1844 -
Anti-Catholic Riots (Philadelphia) - 30/50
1850s- Nativist Riots in Midwest
1881 Chinese Exclusion Act 1885
Massacre of Chinese Miners (Rock Springs,
Wyoming) - 28 1891 Anti-Italian
Riot in New Orleans - 11 1920s Klu
Klux Klan, Anti labor Violence (Ybor City)

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RECENT ANTI-IMMIGRATION VIOLENCE
Summer 1976 - Hannigan family of ranchers
kidnapped and torture 3 migrants. Later, an
all-white jury acquitted the Hannigans.   July
5, 2000 - 5 Mexican migrant workers came under a
vicious attack by 8 or more neo-Nazi skinheads
in the Carmel Valley of the City of San Diego,
  May 12, 2000 - two Arizona ranchers on
horseback shot and critically wounded a
undocumented Mexican worker attempting to cross
the border near Sasabe, Arizona.    October 22,
2002 - Red Rock, Arizona, two men wearing
camouflage fatigues opened fire on a group of
twelve immigrants, killing two.     October 28,
2002 - 8 bodies found in a killing field west of
Phoenix with hands tied behind their backs
before being shot multiple times with a
semiautomatic weapon.

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GEMEINSCHAFT IN SAN DIEGO COUNTY San
Diego Hammerskin Nation World Church of the
Creator Aryan Nations Fallbrook Tom Metzger /
Founder- White Aryan Resistance Save Our State
(Vanguard Neo Nazi members) Lemon Grove Alex
Curtis / SDSU History Student Oceanside Skinhea
d Attack on Migrants