Pequot

We have all heard the story of Thanksgiving in elementary school. The Native Americans and the British colonists came together to share a meal and celebrate their new friendship. The Native Americans shared their farming techniques and in return the settlers shared their new technology. After that they all lived together in peace. While it would be lovely it all worked out this way, unfortunately their relationship was much more complicated and bloody. Since the time the British settlers landed,…

European settlers came from a variety of social and religious groups. Englishmen fled to the New World from a society they found displeasing in many ways with economic and political values being at the forefront. As well as religious turmoil. Adventurers, soldiers, farmers, and tradesmen arrived at the New World. By the time that European settlers arrived around 1600-1650, a significant percentage of the Native Americans living in the eastern United States had been ravaged by new diseases…

for sale; then they suddenly attacked” (text 29). These hostile Indians did not stop the attack until “347 whites of both sexes and all ages lay dead” (text 29). As the Colonists hunger grew for increasing amounts of land, “a conflict known as the Pequot War” emerged in 1637 (text 38). These local Indians tribes were trying to prevent the Colonists settling in the Connecticut Valley. Another war broke out against the Indians and the Colonists in 1675 known as “King Philip’s War” (text 38). This…

Faustino, Yeelena 1A 10/12/15 DBQ Influenced by the Puritans, from 1630 through the 1660’s the four New England colonies, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire , were experiencing large growth in their political, economic, and social systems. Socially, the Puritans impacted the colonies religious views and community. Economically they believed in thrift and godliness and politically they leaned towards a self-governing congregations groups. The puritans greatly…

Colonization and Conflicts, of Exploring American Histories, it teaches us in wanting to separate from the Church of England, the Puritans sailed across the sea looking for refuge from them. During the colonial time, slavery was seen more as a result of the Pequot war. After the war, the captured Native Americans were held and traded or sold to other elites. With each family, it was common to have one to two slaves if not more. Often, slaves were sold to reestablish economy downfall in result…

In 1492, Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer, initiated colonization by Europe in the New World when he sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. English and Spanish colonies grew to become very different from one another with frequent similarities. The Spanish colonies and New England greatly differed in terms of control by a European government, were both vastly similar and extremely different in terms of religion, and were largely similar in terms of treatment of indigenous…

time. Some colonies had no issues keeping open trade with the Indians. Fur trade was one the English used as well. In the Southern regions of the new world the Pequots broke this peaceful fur trade with the murder of a trader in 1637. The English provoked them by the increased expansion of the colonies. Along with the fur trader the Pequots burned and murdered over 500 colonist to include women and children. The English found the Tobacco was a great way to gain more money in the new world. In…

There were Thirteen colonies that survived and came together to form the United States of America, those colonies are, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. There are other colonies such as Roanoke, where the settlements failed to survive and all the settlers died. In the case of Roanoke, no one knows what happened to it’s colonists. All the colonies had their own…

Early European motives for expansion and colonization of the New World sprouted from explorations into the West in search of a better, safer trade route to the Orient. After finding the New World by accident, several different explorers set up settlements in various states such as Virginia, Maryland, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. Monarchs saw value in the exotic spices and other things, such as fabric and dyes, coming from Asia. But the Muslim occupation of the Eastern trade routes made…

Jamestown, Virginia was established in 1607 not long after the Puritans discovered Massachusetts Bay in 1630. They were two English colonies but went to the New World for different reasons but also similar ones. Virginia's purpose was trading and making money. Massachusetts Bay Colony on the other hand sought out for religion. Two colonies that was completely different with even more opposite purposes. There were two colonies established in the world with completely different goals in mind.…