SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
FOUNDING OF THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
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the Wampanoag Indians and Spanish colonists
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the Wampanoag Indians and English colonists
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the Narragansett Indians and English colonists
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the Narragansett Indians and French colonists
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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: -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.