History of the United States I / Unit 4 USH1 0454 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Yamasee War
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The idea
Surviving Yamasee and Creek had developed trade dependency, exchanging deerskins and captive people for European guns. Traders taking Native women captive as payment for debts provoked resistance.
In practice
A coalition of local tribes from seventeen fifteen to seventeen eighteen nearly annihilating the Carolina colonies.
Where people slip
The coalition faltered only when the Cherokee allied themselves with the English.
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