The primary difference between King Philip’s War (otherwise known as Metacom’s Rebellion) and the Salem Witch Trials has to do solely with their purposes. In King Philip’s War, natives resorted to rebellions to prevent English settlers from inhabiting their land. In the Salem Witch Trials, however, people were executed and chastised simply for beliefs that they were witches. Some of these defendants happened to be witches and some were falsely accused. Regardless, these wars differed in their purposes and methods/approaches to evacuate people from society.