Brief Presentation summarizing a few key conflicts between the colonists and Native Americans as well as Nathaniel Bacon's attempt to overthrow the government of Virginia

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