SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
FOUNDING OF THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
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Pequot Indians killed an English trader, which led to conflict.
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New England colonists raided the food supplies at a Pequot fort.
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Colonists in Providence wanted Narragansett lands.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -As tensions grew between all parties, the murder of trader John Oldham by the Manisses Indians of Block Island in July, 1636 resulted in a military response by the English of Massachusetts Bay that led directly to the Pequot War, the first battlefield site defined as Battlefields of the Pequot War.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The Pequot War was the sole determinant for total English domination of New England, the end of Dutch domination in the region, and subjugation of natives. Probably the most significant outcome of the Pequot War was that it established a pattern for English policy towards natives.
Detailed explanation-4: -The most-significant battles of the war then followed, including the Mistick Campaign of May 10–26, 1637 (Battle of Mistick Fort), during which an expeditionary force of 77 Connecticut soldiers and as many as 250 Native American allies attacked and burned the fortified Pequot village at Mistick.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Mystic Massacre started in the predawn hours of May 26, 1637, when colonial forces led by Captains John Mason and John Underhill, along with their allies from the Mohegan and Narragansett tribes, surrounded one of two main fortified Pequot villages at Mistick.