Early United States History

Question 1

King Philip's War

King Philip is a violent conflict that took place between 1675 and 1676 between settlers arrived in North America and the Indians who inhabited what is now known as New England (United States).The Indians Wampanoag welcomed and helped the Pilgrims, early settlers to survive a winter for which they were unprepared. His living was peaceful at first, but the continual arrival of European settlers and their expansion into the continent, led to increasingly invade Indian lands. This began to cause continued fighting, until in 1675 the conflict broke out it would be definitive: King Philip's War. Philip was the Christian name of the Wampanoag chief, Metacomet.

The settlers referred to the Indian chiefs as king. Philip was captured by the English. Ill and died while being held captive. His death raised the ire of the natives. The consequences of the war were dramatic for both sides, but especially for indigenous peoples: the Narragansett, the Wampanoag, the Podunk, the Nipmuck, the Mahicanos and other towns were practically exterminated. The Museum of Pilgrims also indicates: "The lifestyle of the Indians in New England was eradicated. The survivors were enslaved and sold outside the region."

Bacon's Rebellion

Nathaniel Bacon's rebellion, a revolt erupted in 1676 in the British colony of Virginia by whites living on the border with the Indians, later joined by slaves and black slaves white. It broke about the Indian threat in the context of agricultural crisis and misery. Frontier whites believe that the governor of Jamestown, William Berkeley, to conduct a total war against the Doegs who have engaged in actions of guerrillas in the wake of disputes with the settlers. Nathaniel Bacon, who was elected to the House of Bourgeois Virginia in the spring, and Cousin Frances Culpeper, wife of Governor William Berkeley, advocates the ...