SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
FOUNDING OF THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
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the Narragansett Indians and English colonists
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the Wampanoag Indians and English colonists
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the Narragansett Indians and French colonists
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer: The groups that formed an alliance against the Pequot Indians during the Pequot war were the following: The Narragansett Indians and English colonists.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Pequot War was an armed conflict that took place between 1636 and 1638 in New England between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the colonists from the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies and their allies from the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -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.