Pequots Vs. Settlers

Comprehension Questions:
#3.) The puritans wanted religious freedom and they were planning to set up colonies. They had the intention to live there.

#4.) Land and property: Pequots- You don't own the land your just using it for the time being. Puritans- Believed you had to establish settlements in order to own it. You had to have buildings and live there all year
Division of labor and gender: Pequots- The woman did most the work including farming and taking care of things around the fort while the men went out into the forest all day, hunting or trained for fighting. Women also had a big say in thing and decisions in the native life. The Puritans- The men did most the labor while the woman were more of house wives. The pequots thought the puritans babied there wives.
Warfare: Puritans believe that the idea of total war was a way to get rid of a total culture but natives didn't practice total warfare. The natives spared the woman and children and usually adopted them into their village but the puritans would wipe everyone out so there would be no way they could come back.

#5.) English were there to establish permanent establishments, the dutch were just there for trade. So the dutch wanted to be friends with the natives and coexisted, were as the English wanted the land the natives had and to control the trade. The dutch were friends with the natives but the English and natives were not on good terms and didn't trust one an other.

#12.) It showed success for the English and that it was possible to over take the natives and gain their land. It also made it acceptable to take over the native land by total war. The reason that the massacre of Mystic happened was because the puritans believed god thought it was right.

Extended Activity:
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Primary Source:
#1.) I believed Winthrop envisioned a conoly where everyone works together to survive and you take care of eachother. Yes I think a colony can learn to work together, thats the way the natives lived together, so it is within reach. Though the puritans and natives were very different so maybe it is not within the puritans reach.

#2.) He is saying they will stick out, and God will be watching them.

#3.) No because they did not ever consider the natives equal. They only used the natives, and no I do not believe the puritan upheld Winthrop's vision in their dealing iwth Natives. Since the beginning the Puritans treated that natives as lesser beings. They never tried to livve as one wiht the natives, they would pretned to like them until they got everything they needed from the natives, thatn they'd try to over take them.