James I: The Chief Of The Algonquian Indians

King Philip’s War, from 1675-1676, also known as Metacom’s Rebellion, not only marked the last major effort by the Indians of southern New England to drive out the English settlers but also marked the bloodiest war in American History in terms of the ratio between causality and population. (Cowley and Parker 1996) Frustrated by their oppressors, “They [Native Americans] had become increasingly dependent on English goods, food, and weapons, and their bargaining power diminished as the fur trade dried up, tribal lands were sold, …leaders were forced by the colonists to recognize English sovereignty.” (1996) Native Americans’ unfavorable situation made one of their leaders, Matcom, to unite a large force of Indians with the purpose of driving the European settlers out of their land. Edward Randolph, in his report on the aftermath of King Philip’s War, wrote:

Households were strictly patriarchal in which the man of the house made all the important decisions. Women's jobs at the time were mostly relegated to domestic service and occasional work at harvest time. The jobs were always of low pay, low status, and required little training. In addition to this females were not legally permitted to inherit land or property. This was the bleak life of a woman, with little hope or power, and always the subordinate of men.

The other disaster that took place in the early nineteenth century was disease. The Native Americans had received various sicknesses from the White people and had no treatment to remedy these types of plagues. Diseases such as the whooping cough, smallpox, and measles were deathly during those times and

Due to the fact that colonists lacked agricultural skills that were needed for survival, they confronted relationship difficulties with the Indians. John Smith, being a man with great leadership skills, forced colonists to work in the fields multiple hours per day. Colonists disliked Smith’s way of thinking, which led him to being exiled from Jamestown. Without a leader, settlers began to starve and become ill. This tragic time became known as the “Starving Time”. (Doc. E) Lacking options, the settlers made their way towards the Indians and forced them to give them grain. Obviously, this angered the Indians which led to distrust. Distrust ultimately caused an immense amounts of deaths, about 110 to be more accurate. (Doc. E) Due to the

Well, In 1606, our English king granted a charter for the organization of the Virginia Company of London. The reason and objective we wanted to go is so tha we could establish a colony in North America, locate gold and silver deposits, oncethey were mined, they would provide profits to the investors in the company, lastly we wanted to find a river route to the Pacific Ocean for trade with Asia.

The slaves, on the other hand, were treated very badly. They were taken away from their homes and forced over to America in ships to work on plantations and for colonists. According to History.com, “Slavery in America began when the first African slaves were brought to the North

Jamestown is build in 1607, so many people want find a colony that free and get away from the laws because of the strict laws and harsh life in England. So the “Virginia Company ”carry the people go to America and those people build a colony name Jamestown

In 1606, King James I chartered a joint-stock enterprise called the Virginia Company. Owned and operated by wealthy merchant investors seeking to reap the benefits of the New World from the gold and silver they hoped to acquire. in 1607, the Virginia Company sent three tiny ships to America with one-hundred men and boys. After five arduous months at sea the settlers landed in the Chesapeake Bay area. The settlers knew that the Spanish would find them if they settled near the coast, so they made the trek forty miles inland and settled along a river they named James in honor of their King, here they formed the first permanent English settlement of Jamestown (Shi and Tindall p.45). However, the are the settlers chose was unforgiving, it was marshy

The Virginia Company of London, a modern corporation that sold shares of stock and used the capital to pay for overseas exploration under charter.

The Powhatan Indians helped us to survive, we provided them with tools and weapons, they taught us needed skills. In around 1621 I was 21 years old and things changed drastically when the cash crop tobacco began to expand and the demand for it rose. The more demand for tobacco the more land was needed to grow it, and the Powhatan were tired of the English colonists continuously taking their land. The next year in 1622 the Indians gathered any tool or weapon they could find and

In 1607, under King James I, the Virginia Company was granted a charter, giving the company the right to settle anywhere from roughly present-day North Carolina to New York state. Aristocrats and gentlemen, seeking their fortune, embarked on the adventure of their lifetime. They reached Chesapeake Bay on April 26, 1607, and named their settlement, Jamestown in honor of the King. Ill-equipped for the intense labor and harsh conditions that lay ahead, for many of them, this

May 26,1637 was the day of a very brutal and gory war. The war was between the Pequot Indian tribe and the English settlers. Prior to the war aprocimently 20,000 English settlers left in what was known as the Great Migration to New England. Once settled the English and Pequot's first incountor was a possitive one. The Pequot tribe were the most respected, wealthiest and highly orginized tribe around. They seemed to get along and would even trade goods amongst eachother. How ever they did disagree on some things. For example, the Indian wemen did 80% of the food prep while the men rested from being in the forest all day. In return the English thought the Indian men were lazy. Dieseses later spread throught the land from the English settlers

The new English settlers wanted to reshape the Indian society and culture. The “ settlers spread over the land, threatened Indians’ ways of life “(Foner 56). The settlers were changing the agriculture and hunting techniques that the Indian people used to have. Some of the Indian people did not agree with them and a group of Indians confronted settlers in Chesapeake. The Indians stated “ you should rather conform yourselves to the customs of our country , than impose yours on us “ (Foner 56). Settlers were changing drastically the lives of the Indian people. The Englishmen arrived in Jamestown with “ epidemics that decimated Indians populations”(Foner 56). The Indians traded goods with the settlers and the settlers did the same. But the settlers were also spreading the diseases that they had brought from Europe. The Indians had never been exposed to diseases , their immune system was weak and the disease were more powerful than them and killed many Indians. The Indian people thought that the English settlers were just interested in establishing a trading post but “ once it became clear that the English were interested in establishing a permanent and constantly expanding colony... conflict with local Indians was inevitable” (Foner 59). The Indians attacked Virginian settlers which resulted in a massacre for Indians . Thus after many fights the settlers won and continued their expansion in America and they formed

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

It was to be her marriage to colonist John Rolfe in 1614 that would bring about a temporary peace between the natives and colonists but it only lasted until her death in 1617. Powhatan died in 1618, and was succeeded by his brother Opechancanough who despised the settlers who were bringing disease and taking Indian lands. On March 22, 1622, Indians attacked the colonists killing 347 of them, one fourth of the colonist’s population. The colonists countered by burning the natives’ cornfields and attacking their villages. During peace talks in April 1623, the colonists served the Indians poisoned wine, killing two hundred of them. The English would be ferocious in the next nine years of war with the natives, and the Indian’s (whose tribes were separate, not united) stood little chance against them.