Native American history in New England

Among them were the Abenaki (a-be-NAWK-e), Micmac (MIK-mak), Pennacook (PEN-uh-cook), Pequot (PEE-kot), Mohegan (mo-HEE-gun), Nauset (NAW-set), Narragansett (nair-uh-GAN-set), Nipmuc (NIP-muk), Woronoco (wor-oh-NOH-koh), and Wampanoag (wahm-puh-NOH-uhg).

1. What happened to Native Americans in New England?
2. When did Native Americans come to New England?
3. How did the New England colonies treat the natives?
4. What caused conflicts between New England colonists and Native American?
5. What was the first Native American tribe in America?
6. How long did natives live in America?
7. Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?
8. What wiped out the Wampanoag?
9. What region is Native American?
10. Did the English convert natives?
11. Did the English treat the natives kindly?
12. Which two religious groups settled in the New England colonies?

What happened to Native Americans in New England?

War devastated the Pequot Indian population. Then English colonists and Mohegan warriors attacked them in the Pequot War of 1637. Hundreds were killed or captured and hundreds more fled to southwestern Connecticut and Long Island. Only 200 were left by war's end, and they were absorbed into the Mohegan tribe.

When did Native Americans come to New England?

In the 1600s, when the first English settlers began to arrive in New England, there were about 60,000 Native Americans living in what would later become the New England colonies (Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, New Hampshire, Connecticut, New Haven, and Rhode Island).

How did the New England colonies treat the natives?

England's colonists, however, were equally hostile toward the natives they encountered. The success of England's colonies depended on the exploitation of Native Americans who were forced off their lands. Religion was often used to justify the poor treatment of the natives.

What caused conflicts between New England colonists and Native American?

However, over time the colonies began to spread which meant that more and more of the Natives' land was being taken from them. This led to conflict. The New England colonists also tried to convert the Native Americans to Christianity - the Natives resisted this and felt insulted by this. This also led to conflict.

What was the first Native American tribe in America?

The Clovis culture, the earliest definitively-dated Paleo-Indians in the Americas, appears around 11,500 RCBP (radiocarbon years Before Present), equivalent to 13,500 to 13,000 calendar years ago.

How long did natives live in America?

The ancestors of living Native Americans arrived in what is now the United States at least 15,000 years ago, possibly much earlier, from Asia via Beringia. A vast variety of peoples, societies and cultures subsequently developed.

Who lived in America before the Europeans arrived?

Five hundred years before Columbus, a daring band of Vikings led by Leif Eriksson set foot in North America and established a settlement. And long before that, some scholars say, the Americas seem to have been visited by seafaring travelers from China, and possibly by visitors from Africa and even Ice Age Europe.

What wiped out the Wampanoag?

From 1615 to 1619, the Wampanoag suffered an epidemic, long suspected to be smallpox. Modern research, however, has suggested that it may have been leptospirosis, a bacterial infection which can develop into Weil's syndrome. It caused a high fatality rate and decimated the Wampanoag population.

What region is Native American?

Most scholars break North America—excluding present-day Mexico—into 10 separate culture areas: the Arctic, the Subarctic, the Northeast, the Southeast, the Plains, the Southwest, the Great Basin, California, the Northwest Coast and the Plateau.

Did the English convert natives?

Because of their recently ended victory against Pequot warriors in 1637, the British gained the confidence for conversion of the Natives on what they viewed as enlightenment venture. With the help of the court in November 1644, they went about "purifying" the Natives.

Did the English treat the natives kindly?

Relations between the Natives and the English were not nearly as good. The English treated the Natives as inferior, believed they stood in the way of their God-given right to the land in America and tried to subject the Natives to their laws as they established their colonies.

Which two religious groups settled in the New England colonies?

The New England colonists—with the exception of Rhode Island—were predominantly Puritans, who, by and large, led strict religious lives. The clergy was highly educated and devoted to the study and teaching of both Scripture and the natural sciences.