What factors combined to produce the Pueblo Revolt of 1680? ...

[colton]

Question 1

What grievances led Metacom to wage war against the English settlers and their Indian allies?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

How did the Navigation Acts of 1660 and 1663 shape Englands colonial commerce?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 3

What factors combined to produce the Pueblo Revolt of 1680?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[katara]

Answer 1

Answer: The ideal answer should include:

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  Metacom believed that the English had a hand in the death of his father, Massasoit.
  


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  Colonial traders made Indians drunk and then cheated them.
  


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  English livestock trampled Indian fields, and if Indians shot the cattle, colonial courts punished them.
  


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  Finally, the Indians of southern New England were outnumbered two to one by English colonists, placing enormous pressure on the remaining Indian communities.
  

Answer 2

Answer: The ideal answer should include:

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  The Navigation Act of 1660 stipulated that merchants could not conduct trade to or from the English colonies in foreign-owned ships.
  


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  It also required key non-English products imported from foreign lands to be carried in English ships or ships with mostly English crews.
  


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  Finally, it contained a list of enumerated articles that could not be sent directly from a colony to a foreign European port.
  


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  The Navigation Act of 1663 required that goods moving from the European continent to Englands overseas colonies must pass through England, arriving and departing on English ships.
  

Answer 3

Answer: The ideal answer should include:

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  A five-year drought beginning in 1666 inflicted a prolonged famine upon the peoples of New Mexico.
  


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  The Spanish failed to adequately defend Pueblo communities from Apache and Navajo raids.
  


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  The prayers of Spanish missionaries failed to bring an end to an epidemic that struck in 1671.
  


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  When Indian priests revived Pueblo religious customs in an effort to fend off the sickness, Spanish priests and officials responded with harsh punishments.
  


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  Pop, one of the Indians singled out for punishment, emerged as the leader of the Pueblo resistance movement.
  

[colton]

Thank you!

[katara]

Always glad to help...