USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The underlying cause of the war was the colonists unrelenting desire for more and more land, but the immediate cause for its outbreak was the trial and execution of three of Metacom’s men by the colonists.

Detailed explanation-2: -Disputes over land and resources, cultural conflicts, and Native Americans fearing that the English were taking over all factored in. Metacom’s leadership and the execution of his tribal allies helped start a war that was building for some time.

Detailed explanation-3: -King Philip’s War, also called Great Narragansett War, (1675–76), in British American colonial history, war that pitted Native Americans against English settlers and their Indian allies that was one of the bloodiest conflicts (per capita) in U.S. history.

Detailed explanation-4: -In colonial New England, King Philip’s War effectively comes to an end when Philip, chief of the Wampanoag tribe, is assassinated by a Native American in the service of the English.