Pequot War

The Pequot War is best understood by inspecting wider cultural, political, and economic changes that happened following the arrival of the Dutch in 1611, and the English in the 1630s. For a time, the Dutch and Pequot controlled all trade in the region, which resulted in short term stability as many Native tribes were irritated of their subordinate status to the Pequot. The arrival of English traders in the early 1630s switched it up and resulted in intense competition and disputes for control of trade or tribes wrenched themselves from Pequot enslavement, resulting in the outbreak of the Pequot War. The main cause of the Pequot War was the struggle for control. The English efforts to end Dutch and Pequot control of fur and wampum trade, while the Pequot attempted to uphold theor political and economic dominance in the region. Specific events which have often been said to be the cause of the Pequot War are the murders of English traders. However, these deaths were the climax of decades of squabbling between Native tribes in the region further intensified by the arrival of the Dutch and English. The English felt they could not afford to let any English deaths in the hands of the Natives go…

The Pequot War impacted several important leaders known as Mason, Underhill, Vincent and Gardener. The monograph has to deal with the accounts of all these important leaders experiences during the Pequot War, and provides a good source for detail to detail of what was occurring during that time in the 1600s, during the Pequot War. The introduction introduces what the Pequot tribe has, how much strength does the tribe really have, and it provides why the Pequot war want to have warfare with the…

The most well known and famous battle of the Pequot War was that of the Mystic Fort Campaign, also known as the Massacre at Mystic. In May of 1637, English men from Windsor, Wethersfield, and Hartford, Massachusetts Bay soldiers, and Mohegan and Connecticut River Indian warriors joined together. With these Native and English troops allied together, there were over one hundred and fifty men, who would win sail to join with the Narragansett who had another two hundred men prepared to fight against…

The Pequot War was a conflict between the English Colonists and Pequot tribe. Many scholars and historians have had difficulty explaining why the war had occurred in the first place. Some say it was for religious reasons, while others say it was so that the English could take over the market. Katherine A. Grandjean, who is an assistant professor of history at Wellesley College, argues in her article “New World Tempests: Environment, Scarcity, and the Coming of the Pequot War” that “to a degree…

tells the reader that the Pequots, who live on a hill, are able to see all around them. The day is quiet and peaceful; the men are out fishing. A little before dawn the next day, Magawisca’s mother goes out looking for her son because it is late and she has a bad feeling that something bad is going to happen. She meets a member of the tribe and has a conversation with him about her son. The next thing they know dogs start to bark. The English has come. In the bloodshed that happens next young…

of someone’s behavior to see the inside of them and to find salvation. with only two from all the colonies ministers being saved, she influenced people to question the qualifications of them. these followers were called Antinomians, taking up half of people in Massachusetts Bay. her and all her followers were unfortunately banished by John Winthrop Third Anglo-Powhatan War- lasting from 1644 until 1646, this war was caused but the attack of powhatan warriors on Virginians. this attack was…

Religion is a touchy topic in our society today, but not as much as it was when the Puritans first came to the New World and tried to force the natives to their religion. This created a conflict that got so heated it was a cause of war. This conflict makes us wonder, who started the fighting? Did the natives do something to the puritans or did the puritans do something to the natives? The fighting eventually stopped, and that is what shaped our nations religious beliefs today. In the colonies…

development of the colonies like Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay but there were also documents that helped develop colonies like Rhode Island. Roger Williams’ “A Plea for Religious Liberty,” he mentions how God did not require a uniformity, a sameness of religion to be enforced due to the fact that it will occasionally bring civil war (document F). Other than internal matters and beliefs, the colonist faced another issue that also involves persons with different belief than their own but this…

colonies after being accrued by the monarch or royal rule. Because of the colony’s tie to a sovereign nation, more immigrants moved to royal colonies, such as in the case of New York when eleven thousand immigrants from France, Britain, and New England joined the measly nine thousand original colonists. These royal colonies were able to gain the support and aid of the crown and all of its resources. Proprietary colony: A proprietary colony is a colony led by proprietors, specifically English…

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…