HISTORY 347 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Massasoit
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In new england, the expanding population resulted mainly from natural increase, rather than from immigration, Which slowed down greatly after the outbreak of the civil war in 1642. But b/c of the good conditions and large families, the population had tripled by the. The increase created a need for land, and settlement began to spread farther into. Massachusetts and connecticut, and even north to new hampshire and maine. Other families gave up on agriculture altogether and took up skills like blacksmithing or carpentry. Nevertheless, settlements gradually came to surround the lands of the pokanokets, whose chief, king phillip, was the son of massasoit. Concerned by the loss of land and the impact of christianity, king phillip began attacking settlements in june 1675. Other algonquians joined, and even the more well established villages began to face attacks in 1676. But the tide turned in the summer of 1676, When the indians began to lack supplies and the colonists began using christian.
