How Did The Algonquians Influence English Settlement In Virginia

So during the 1614 peaceful period of time, between the colonists and the Algonquian tribes. John Rolfe and Pocahontas, who was captured and converted to Christianity had wed. Rolfe had brought back seeds from his voyage from the West Indies and began the cash crop product of Tabacco back to the colony. In 1617, when Pocahontas died on her way back to England, and her father Powhatan died in 1618. Under Powhatan’s successor, Opechankeno, the Algonquians became more and more angry about the colonists’ insatiable need for land and the pace of English settlement; meanwhile, diseases brought from the Old World decimated the Native American population. In March 1622, the Powhatan made a major assault on English settlements in Virginia, killing some 350 to 400 residents (a full one-quarter of the population). Lastly during this time frame, the first Africans to arrive in the New World trickled into the settlement. In 1620, a new settlement would begin in present day Massasschuetts. It was the infamous colony of Plymouth. The colony was founded by the pilgrims, who were fleeing Europe on the grounds of religious persecuetion. So …show more content…
Metacom succeeded his father in 1662 and reacted against the European settlers' continued encroaching onto Wampanoag lands. At Taunton in 1671, he was humiliated when colonists forced him to sign a new peace agreement that included the surrender of Indian guns. King Philip's War started when officials in Plymouth Colony hanged three Wampanoags in 1675 for the murder of a Christianized Indian, Metacom's alliance launched a united assault on colonial towns throughout the