The First Amendment allows Americans to have basic freedoms, including speech, press, and assembly. Without these freedoms, we would not be able to live life as we do today. These freedoms enable us to express our opinions freely.
<span>On July 20, 1636, a trader named John Oldham was attacked on a trading voyage to Block Island. He and several of his crew were killed and his ship was looted by Narragansett-allied Indians who sought to discourage English settlers from trading with Pequot rivals. In the weeks that followed, colonial officials from Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, assumed the Narragansett were likely culprits. Puritan officials became equally suspicious of the Narragansett. The colonial English response to Oldham's death, the last in a series of escalating incidents, has traditionally been viewed as the beginning of the Pequot War. SO in he end It was Oldham's death that caused the Pequot War.</span>
Agriculture was devastated and the Union blockade resulted in little trade.<span />
Most Americans military women who served in Vietnam were trained graduate nurses.
Two of the most notable African American writers from the Harlem Renaissance, I would say, are Langston Hughes, the poet who wrote things like The Negro Speaks of Rivers, and Zora Neale Hurston, who wrote the book Their Eyes Were Watching God.
