Pequot War: The New Colonies In The United States

The Pequot war was a bloody conflict that demonstrated the hatred and distrust between the the Puritans and the Pequot Tribe. Both sides were deeply suspicious of each other” (10). The Puritans viewed the Native Americans as “godless savages” (19) while the Native Americans viewed the Puritans as invaders. Rather than trying to coexist, the English firmly believed “there would be no assimilation of Indian culture” (24) which lead to even more tensions that eventually manifested in the form of the Pequot war.

      The primary cause of the Pequot War was the struggle to control trade. The Dutch brought on economic, political, and cultural changes when they arrived on Long Island and in the Connecticut River valley at the beginning of the 17th century and of English traders and settlers in the early 1630s. The world they entered into was dominated by the Pequot. The root of the Pequot War was the struggle for control of the fur and wampum trade in the Connecticut River valley. Before the arrival of the English in the early 1630s, the Dutch and Pequot controlled all the region’s trade. The situation was precarious because of the resentment held by the subservient Native American tribes for their Pequot overlords. So, when the English wanted to join in on the scene, those other tribes sought alliance with them, shifting the balance of regional power. This brought conflict as the competition for control of trade escalated quickly. As tensions grew between all parties, the murder of trader John Oldham by the Manisses Indians of Block Island in July, 1636 resulted in a military response by the English of Massachusetts Bay that led directly to the Pequot War. This was the beginning 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

In New England, John Winthrop began conflicts early when he declared that the Indians had only a natural right to their land and no legal right. The Puritans and Pequot Indians lived side by side with relative peace until an attack was launched upon the Narraganset Indians. Not many people were killed and the Narragansets did not fight back, but when the Puritans attacked the Pequot Indians, they fought back. The Pequot War was one of large massacres, rather than battles, from both sides and had many deaths. "Mason proposed to avoid attacking Pequot warriors, which would have overtaxed his unseasoned, unreliable troops. Battle, as such, was not his purpose. Battle is only one of the ways to destroy an enemy's will to fight. Massacre can accomplish the same end with less risk, and Mason had determined that massacre would be his objective" (Jennings). The Europeans raided the Pequot village and burned all of

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,

During the time of 1763-1775, one of the occurrences that happened to affect the colonists’ perception of the British was the French and Indian War. The war itself was not the main reason the colonists’ had trouble with the British, but the time after the war was the actual cause of eventual trouble. During the war, the British fought with France around the Ohio valley for the control of land. The Ohio valley was very important to both of the empires, because of the land value and the strategic location it held in the years to come. Both had their struggles especially with the Native Americans that called this area their home. Most of the Native Americans sided with either the British or the French because they thought that if they had sided with

The reasons behind the sudden transition of England and it’s American colonies from allies to enemies is still debated today. When the colonies were first created they had a somewhat dependent relationship with the British. Trade was regulated through the British homeland while the British provided structure for the developing colonies. As salutary neglect came into play, the colonies became more independent in their ways by developing their own governments and laws. After the French and Indian War, the British economy dropped due to war expenses. The passing of the Stamp Act and all the taxes to follow were an attempt to create revenue for the British. This created tension between the colonists and the British government. The British government caused rebellion by trying to tax the colonists in ways that had not previously been done and by trying to control the colonies more closely than it previously had. The colonies were justified in waging war and breaking away from the British due to the unfair tyrant, burdensome taxes, and the aggressive behavior of the British.

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

Following the discovery of the new world, many different European countries tried to claim it for their own. The French and British fought intensely over the land in the French and Indian war 1754-1763. The French had taken residence in the Champlain Valley and the British had taken residence in the Connecticut River Valley. At this time however neither country directly owned the land that would become Vermont. Even after the British won the French and Indian war, the area of Vermont was still controversial. Both New York and New Hampshire wanted to claim the area of Vermont for their own. The British King was of no help deciding where the boarders of New York and New Hampshire were. After the United States of America won its independence

These revolts started the Pequot War between New England and the Pequot Indians in the late 1630’s. New England made alliances with the Narragansetts and the Mohegans, enemies of the Pequot, to help take the Pequot down. The Wampanoags in fear of the settlers also tried to get rid of the colonists by using fire arms. Known as King Philip’s war, one thousand Puritans were massacred and with the help of the Mohawk Indians, New England destroyed Wampanoag villages and killed four thousand of

Throughout chapter 2, I have enjoyed reading and learning the information about the English and Indian interactions, especially the Pequot War. This is the first time I have learned about the Pequot War in school curriculum. The reasonw why simply because I have not taken high school history, only Cape Fear. I do, however, have past knowledge about the Puritan times. Other than their interactions with Indian tribes, they are also had a significant role in history.

The attack on Pequot Fort was a brutal, one-sided battle between the Pequot people, fellow Natives Americans, and the Englishmen. The Pequot fought very hard and stood their ground during the battle. In John Underhill’s account, he mentions that he and Captain Mason set fire to the fort. This led to many deaths of the Pequot people as most of them stayed and fought through the Palisadoes. The Pequot were slowly losing the war as their warriors died and their weaponry destroyed in the flames. Those who ran from the fire were killed by the colonists themselves. Those who survived the fire and fought back were killed nonetheless. The Englishmen had advanced warfare compared to the Natives. The Colonists had swords, Carbines, and Muskets while

The story of the first Thanksgiving, as most Americans have been taught in school, is not exactly accurate. Blame the school textbooks with details so abridged, softened or out of context that they are rendered false; children's books that distill the story to its most pleasant version.

Pequots are native americans where the war is name after. During the time that the Indians have their memory of the people were in the world that would do a lot of singing and dancing. One thing that is really shocking is that only a few people know that the native americans and colonial history. By the 1610s and the 1620s, the dutch and the Pequots had uneasy, but a mutually beneficial to help out. The important part I got from this was that the history that the Pequots. We all don't know who they really are because there never in our history books. While we do read our history

Before the war, the Pequot tribe had controlled several nearby tribes to control area’s fur and wampum trade. The Pequot used a means necessary to gain power and control. They would use anything from diplomacy to flat-out war. As McBride mentions in his article about the Pequot war, “…by 1635 the Pequot had exerted their economic, political, and military control over the whole of modern-day Connecticut and eastern Long Island…” (McBride 2016) One could almost say that the Pequot people were the modern day “business people.” They did whatever it takes to make sure they had dominance over trade. The endeavor for authority over trade and fur were the main cause for the war.