Question

The Pequot War between the English colonists and the Pequot peoples began

when:
A. the colonists tried to disrupt the Pequot peoples' control over
trade in the region.
B. the Pequot peoples formed an alliance with the Dutch colonists in
the region.
C. the colonists started a smallpox epidemic that killed a large
number of Pequot peoples.
D. the Pequot peoples became hostile and attacked an English
trading crew.

Answer 1

D. the Pequot peoples became hostile and attacked an English

trading crew.

Step-by-step explanation:

The Pequot War began in 1634 when trader John Stone was killed by Western Niantic Indians. The war lasted from 1636 to 1638, though tension and fighting occurred before the official start of the war. The war officially ended when the Treaty of Hartford was signed on September 21, 1638.

The war was the first time English colonists fought a war against Indian tribes in New England. The Pequot War was primarily caused by the need to control trade, but other factors include population differences, competition for natural resources, assumptions from English colonists, and Indigenous People's alliances with Puritans.

The war was fought between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the colonists from the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies and their allies from the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes. The result was the elimination of the Pequot; those who weren't killed were taken as slaves.