USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -They considered Native Americans inferior because of their primitive lifestyle, but many thought they could be converted to Christianity. The natives found Puritan conversion practices coercive and culturally insensitive.

Detailed explanation-2: -While Native Americans and English settlers in the New England territories first attempted a mutual relationship based on trade and a shared dedication to spirituality, soon disease and other conflicts led to a deteriorated relationship and, eventually, the First Indian War.

Detailed explanation-3: -Those living in the area where Jamestown was settled must have had mixed feelings about the arrival of the English in 1607. One of their first reactions was hostility based on their previous experience with Spanish explorers along their coastline. They attacked one of the ships before the English actually landed.

Detailed explanation-4: -They burned Indian villages and their corn crops (ironic, in that the English were often starving). Both sides committed atrocities against the other.