Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The colony of Pennsylvania was founded in 1681, and the continued growth there began to encroach on the southern border of the Iroquois. [13] The French policy began to change towards the Iroquois after nearly fifty years of warfare, and they decided that befriending them would be the easiest way to ensure their monopoly on the northern fur trade.
French and Indian War (1754–63) Part of the Seven Years' War Great Britain. British America; Iroquois Confederacy Catawba Cherokee (until 1758) France New France; Wabanaki Confederacy. Abenaki; Mi'kmaw militia; Algonquin Lenape Ojibwa Ottawa Shawnee Wyandot. Anglo-Cherokee War (1758–61) Part of the Seven Years' War Great Britain: Cherokee ...
During the Revolutionary War, this area was the front of Patriot conflicts with the Iroquois Confederacy and their British allies. At this time, an “Iroquois Civil War” occurred, with the Seneca and Mohawk Indians allying with the British and the Oneida, Tuscarora, and Delaware tribes allying with the Patriots.
From 1658 to 1663, the Iroquois were at war with the Susquehannock and their Lenape and Province of Maryland allies. In 1663, a large Iroquois invasion force was defeated at the Susquehannock main fort. In 1663, the Iroquois were at war with the Sokoki tribe of the upper Connecticut River. Smallpox struck again, and through the effects of ...
After the American Civil War, the Civil Rights Act of 1866 states, "that all persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States". [112] This was affirmed by the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment. But the concept of Native Americans ...
The American Civil War began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces opened fire on the Union-held Fort Sumter. Fort Sumter is located in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. [47] Its status had been contentious for months. Outgoing President Buchanan had dithered in reinforcing its garrison, commanded by Major Robert Anderson.
Fleeing attacks by New England colonists during and after King Philip's War motivated their displacement to French territory. At the end of the French and Indian wars, all resident Indigenous peoples were joined in the confederation of the Seven Nations of Canada. [13]
The 1779 Sullivan Expedition (also known as the Sullivan-Clinton Expedition, the Sullivan Campaign, and the Sullivan-Clinton Campaign) was a United States military campaign during the American Revolutionary War, lasting from June to October 1779, against the four British-allied nations of the Iroquois (also known as the Haudenosaunee).