Pequot War

(noun)

An armed conflict spanning the years 1634–1638 between an Algonquin tribe and an alliance of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies who were aided by the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes.

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  • The Pequot War

    • The Pequot War was the first war between Native Americans and English settlers in northeastern America and foreshadowed European domination.
    • At the time of the Pequot War, Pequot strength was concentrated along the Pequot (now Thames) and Mystic Rivers.
    • The story of the Pequot War is a key element in colonial history.
    • Two events weakened the Pequot prior to their war with the English.
    • That winter, the Pequot sent war belts to many surrounding tribes.

  • The Massachusetts Bay Colony

    • Some American Indians captured in the Pequot War were enslaved, with those posing the greatest threat being transported to the West Indies and exchanged for goods and slaves.
    • The Pequot War was the first war between American Indians and English settlers in northeastern America and foreshadowed European domination.
    • In May of 1637, the Puritans attacked a large group of several hundred Pequot along the Mystic River in Connecticut.
    • This turned the war against the Pequot and broke the tribe's resistance.
    • After the war, the colonists enslaved survivors and outlawed the name "Pequot."

  • King Philip's War

    • For nearly 50 years after the colonists' arrival, Massasoit of the Wampanoag had maintained an uneasy alliance with the English to benefit from their trade goods and as a counter-weight to his tribe's traditional enemies, the Pequot, Narragansett, and the Mohegan.
    • They were allowed to keep the possessions of warring Indians and received a bounty on all captives.
    • The war was the single greatest calamity to occur in 17th century Puritan New England.
    • Proportionately, it was one of the bloodiest and costliest wars in the history of North America.
    • King Philip, also known as Metacom, led the Wampanoag Indians in King Philip's War.

  • Rhode Island

    • Fleeing from religious persecution, Williams went on to found Providence Plantation in 1636 on land gifted by the Narragansett and Pequot tribes.
    • During King Philip's War (1675–1676), both sides regularly violated Rhode Island's neutrality.
    • The war's largest battle occurred in Rhode Island, when a force of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Plymouth militia invaded and destroyed the fortified Narragansett Indian village in the Great Swamp in southern Rhode Island in 1675.

  • Madison and the Pressure for War

    • In the early nineteenth century, President James Madison faced pressure from Democratic-Republican "war hawks" to go to war with Britain.
    • The term "war hawks" was a name used for a historical group of Democratic-Republicans in the early nineteenth century who pushed for war with Great Britain.
    • The war hawks advocated going to war with Britain for reasons related to the interference of the British Royal Navy in American shipping, which was hurting the American economy and, the war hawks believed, injuring American prestige.
    • A portrait of Henry Clay, the leader of the war hawks' western faction, painted after the War of 1812.
    • Discuss the reasons for war with Great Britain proposed by the "war hawks"

  • Range Wars

    • Range wars occurred throughout the American West throughout the late nineteenth century.
    • Famous range wars included the Lincoln County War, the Pleasant Valley War, the Mason County War, and the Johnson County Range War.
    • The Pleasant Valley War was commonly thought to be an Arizona sheep war between two feuding families, the cattle-herding Grahams and the sheep-herding Tewksburys.
    • The Johnson County War, also known as the War on Powder River and the Wyoming Range War, was a range war that took place in Johnson, Natrona and Converse County, Wyoming in April 1892.
    • Assess the significance of range wars in late nineteenth century America

  • European Wars in the Colonies

    • The war was largely subsumed by the War of the Austrian Succession in 1742.
    • Britain and France fought four wars that became known as the French and Indian Wars—followed in 1778 with another war when France joined the Americans in the American Revolution.
    • Queen Anne's War (1702–1713) was the second war for control of the continent and was the counterpart of the War of the Spanish Succession in Europe.
    • King George's War, 1744–1748, was the North American phase of the concurrent War of the Austrian Succession.
    • The final imperial war, the French and Indian War (1754–1763), known as the Seven Years’ War in Europe, proved to be the decisive contest between Britain and France in America.

  • The Cold War's Costs and Consequences

    • The costs of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, as well as its numerous proxy wars, were extensive.
    • The legacy of the Cold War continues to influence world affairs today.
    • Many of the proxy wars and subsidies for local conflicts ended along with the Cold War, and the incidence of interstate, ethnic, and revolutionary wars, as well as refugee and displaced persons crises, has declined somewhat in the post-Cold War years.
    • Many specific nuclear legacies can be identified from the Cold War.
    • The legacy of the Cold War continues to influence world affairs.

  • The Breakdown of Sectional Balance

    • With the conflict over the Texan border escalating, Polk sent Zachary Taylor and American troops into Texas to defend the Rio Grande boundary, provoking the outbreak of war.The American public largely supported the war and was eager for news of conquest and war stories disseminated from newspapers and magazines.The war also held romantic appeal for Americans who believed that it was the destiny of the United States to possess the North American continent and to expand "progressive democracy" to new territories acquired from backward nations.
    • Whigs who had opposed the war from the start.
    • The war also inflamed the slavery issue and sectional splits in the United States.The new territories in the west (particularly California) meant that the westward expansion of slavery became an increasingly central and heated theme in national debates preceding the American Civil War.Furthermore, in extending the nation farther toward the Pacific Ocean, the Mexican–American War contributed to the massive migrations of Americans to the West, which culminated in transcontinental railroads and the Indian wars later in the same century.
    • Map of the Mexican-American War, with routes of both Taylor and Scott's campaigns.
    • Examine the role that the Mexican American War played in increasing sectional tension

  • A New Labor Force

    • World War I saw a change in U.S. labor: women entered the workforce as never before, and labor unions gave firm support to war efforts.
    • As one of the first total wars, World War I mobilized women in unprecedented numbers on all sides .
    • World War I saw many women taking traditionally men's jobs for the first time in American history.
    • Anti-war socialists controlled the IWW, which fought against the war effort and was in turn shut down by legal action by the federal government.
    • War gardeners, Washington, D.C. or vicinity, circa 1918.