The document discusses early colonial conflicts involving Native Americans, highlighting the actions of various groups such as the Quakers in Pennsylvania, the Pequot War, and King Philip's War, as well as Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia. It notes the Quakers' peaceful relations with natives, contrasts this with violent conflicts initiated by settlers, and underscores the political struggles between social classes. Additionally, it addresses British colonial policies, emphasizing the economic motivations behind British governance and the resulting growth of colonial independence.

2.  The Quakers
› Religious group led by
William Penn settle in
Pennsylvania.
› Quakers were pacifists
and practiced freedom
of religion.
› Believed the land
belonged to the Natives
and wanted peaceful
relations
› Wanted Natives to be
treated fairly (court)
› For 50 years, PA had no
major conflicts with
Natives

3.  Looking at the map,
why do you think the
Puritans waged war
on the Pequots?
The Pequot War
(1637)
Block
Island

4. The Pequot War (1637)
 a white trader, Indian-kidnapper, trouble
maker was killed giving settlers an excuse
to attack Natives
 Looking to avoid battle, colonists sought
to terrorize Native-Americans by killing
noncombatants, women, and children
 The Pequot were all but annihilated (and
the Narragansett on Block Island)

5.  King Philip’s War (1675-76)

6.  After 40 years of
increased restrictions,
Metacom (King Philip)
united tribes against the
colonists
 Learning from the
Pequot War, King Philip
attacked
noncombatants as did
the colonists
 Food shortage, disease,
and heavy casualties
brought the end of these
Native forces and Native
power in southeast New
England was gone
King Philip’s War
(1675-76)

7. Bacon’s Rebellion (1676)
 Begins as a conflict between Virginia settlers on
their western frontier and the Doeg and
Susquehannock Indians
 The Virginia governor refused to support the
settlers because they disobeyed his orders
 Ultimately it became a political battle between
the elite upper class, supported by Governor
Berkley and the poor farmers, indentured
servants, freemen, and slaves led by Nathaniel
Bacon
 Bacon would lead his forces against
Jamestown running Berkley off who would
return 1 month later after Bacon dies.

8. Bacon’s Rebellion (1676)
 Berkley would be recalled to London to
answer to the king for his failed policies
 Ultimately losing, Bacon is sometimes
considered “The Torchbearer of the
Revolution”
› the first struggle of common man v aristocrat
› frontier v tidewater
› defiance of a duly constituted authority
 This would be the same type of defiance
that would spark the American Revolution
100 years later!

9.  British Policies
› Navigation Acts
 reinforced trade restrictions of the colonies by the use of
writs of assistance
 the trial of smugglers was turned over to Admiralty
Courts instead of colonial courts (who usually found
colonial smugglers not guilty)
› Board of Trade
 primary role was to make the colonies serve England’s
economic needs
 investigate the enforcement of the Navigation Acts and
made recommendations on how to improve them
 London was over 3000 miles away and didn’t truly
understand the colonies

10.  British Policies
› Salutary Neglect
 the loyalty of the colonies provided little need
for England to strictly enforce the now stronger
Navigation Acts
 England “neglected” its colonies for its own
benefit (salutary = beneficial)
 as a result, the colonies were able to grow
more and more independent