SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
FOUNDING OF THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
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a conflict in which American Indians allied with English colonists and fought other American Indians.
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an English militia creating conflict between English colonists and various American Indian tribes.
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an English militia helping to settle a violent conflict between two American Indian tribes.
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a conflict in which American Indian tribes banded together to fight English colonists and drive them off.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Explanation: The Pequot War was an example of a conflict in which American Indians allied with English colonists and fought other American Indians. an English militia creating conflict between English colonists and various American Indian tribes.
Detailed explanation-2: -Causes of the Pequot War The primary cause of the Pequot War was the struggle to control trade. English efforts were to break the Dutch-Pequot control of the fur and wampum trade, while the Pequot attempted to maintain their political and economic dominance in the region.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Western Niantic (Nehantic) joined them, but the Eastern Niantic (Nehantic) remained neutral. The traditional enemies of the Pequot, the Mohegan and the Narragansett, openly sided with the English. The Narragansetts had warred with and lost territory to the Pequots in 1622.
Detailed explanation-4: -During the Pequot War, an allied Puritan and Mohegan force under English Captain John Mason attacks a Pequot village in Connecticut, burning or massacring some 500 Native American women, men and children.
Detailed explanation-5: -In 1636, the Pequot War over trade expansion broke out between Pequot Indians and English settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Connecticut. The colonists’ Indian allies joined them in battle and helped defeat the Pequot.