History of the United States I / Unit 3 USH1 0321 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The First Anglo-Powhatan War
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The idea
The Powhatan Confederacy was an Algonquian alliance of thirty native groups, about twenty-two thousand people. The first war ran from sixteen oh nine to sixteen fourteen.
In practice
English intrusion and the colonists' refusal to follow diplomatic gift-giving protocols as the cause.
Where people slip
Protocol was not etiquette. Refusing the exchange was refusing the relationship it created.
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