Causes Of The Pequot War

May 26, 1637 was a fateful day in the history of America. The actions of Major John Mason and his Puritan men set a precedent for the next two hundred years of European and Indian relations. On that clear May night near the Mystic River of New England, hundreds of Pequot Indians were killed by the Europeans and their allies, most of the victims being the elderly, women, and children. This massacre was a massive turning point in the Pequot War, effectively ruining the tribe. Already weakened by disease and by competing native tribes, the Pequot were quickly routed and by September 21, 1638 the war ended with the Treaty of Hartford. The treaty

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What is the Pequot war? How did it begin and what was the aftermath? The Pequot War could have also been known as a massacre. The Pequot war was on May 26, 1637. The Pequot war was a war between the Europeans and the Pequot Indians. The English Puritan settlements had begun expanding into the Connecticut River Valley. The only major problem with expanding the settlement was the Pequot Indians. Though, the feud had also involved other Indian tribes including the Mohegans; the Mohegans, however, shared close relation to the Pequot Indians because they were once apart of their tribe and had later split off. The Pequots and the Indians had disputes involving property, livestock damaging Indian crops, hunting, the selling of alcohol to Indians,

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In 1675, the Algonquian Indians rose up in fury against the Puritan Colonists, sparking a violent conflict that engulfed all of Southern New England. From this conflict ensued the most merciless and blood stricken war in American history, tearing flesh from the Puritan doctrine, revealing deep down the bright and incisive fact that anger and violence brings man to a Godless level when faced with the threat of pain and total destruction. In the summer of 1676, as the violence dispersed and a clearing between the hatred and torment was visible, thousands were dead.(Lepore xxi) Indian and English men, women, and children, along with many of the young villages of New England were no more; casualties of a conflict that

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The Pequots are a native tribe from South Eastern Connecticut. They traveled for hunting and gathering during spring and summer when it was warmer. During the Winter, they stayed cozied up in their villages. They first met the English in 1660 and the movement caused many problems between the two people. In fact, the first contact between the English and Pequot tribe caused an outbreak of sicknesses such as small pox unto the Pequot. The Pequot population shrunk to around 3000 from around 13,000 in size. This made many leaders grow sick and die off, allowing the English to have more dominance. The Pequot did not like the difference in power and rebelled, causing the Pequot war. The war only lasted 1 year but had many events and many consequences, mainly to the Pequot. The war ended with the 1638 Treaty of Hartford.

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The resulting white, indian conflicts often took a particularly brutal turn and ultimately resulted in the near -de- struction of the indigenous peoples.Warfare between Europeans and Indians was common in the seventeenth century.In 1622 the Powhatan confederacy nearly wiped out the struggling Jamestown colony.In New England Puritan forces annihilated the Pequot’s in 1636-1637, a campaign whose intensity seemed to foreshadowing the future.

After reviewing numerous sources discussing the Pequot War, each side has similarities and differences. However, Flynn’s case study of the war resembled the research that was read. Flynn looks at the Pequot war as one that the colonists did not instigate, and that the Pequot Indians were the ones to blame. Flynn states, “The Pequots not only waged war on whites, but on their fellow native Americans as well. They were belligerent people feared by weaker tribes” (Flynn 11). This is similar to the article that states “These [The Pequot Indians and the English] tensions escalated when Pequots killed English colonists and traders in 1633 and 1636” (Dutcher). This was the first act that the Pequots committed showing the similarities in their stories. On the other hand, one could state that Zinn summary of the Pequot war was closer to the article because the article does show key points about how the English attacked and killed numerous Indians very gruesomely. For example, Zinn states that “The English landed and killed some Indians, but the rest hid in the thick forests of the island and the English went from one deserted village to the next, destroying crops” (Zinn 15). The English unconsciously ravaged the Pequot Indian way of life, leading the Indians to have negative thought. This is similar to the article that states “Under English and Mohegan command, white and Indian troops allied against the Pequot and courted support from the Narragansett Indians. After a two-day march, the party surprised and burned the Pequot fort near present-day Mystic. Only seven Indians escaped the slaughter. English forces attacked a second Pequot stronghold two miles away the same night” (Dutcher). Zinn summarizes the war in the eyes of the Pequot Indians while Flynn views it from the colonists. Flynn tries

Still before the war, tension remained high due to the Native American indignation towards the Pequot people. So, when the English arrived, it shifted the power from the Dutch and Pequot tribe to the English because tribes who were controlled by the Pequot and Dutch began to form alliances with the English. This rekindled the struggle for power in the area only adding to the fuel to the fire.

Control of trade, and economic status; these were reasons for the Pequot War. July 1636 through September 1638 was the timeframe, and it was the English who wanted the trade and the Pequot Indians who wanted to keep their status. The war was the first big war fought against New England settlers and the Pequot Indians. “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.” This war was the culmination of a huge disagreement that would last for two years.