Why was King Philip's War of 1675-76 considered a turning point in the relationship between English settlers in New England and Indian peoples?

Question

What role did new economic conflicts, land sales to the English, and a breakdown in personal relationships among leaders of the English and Indian communities have in contributing to the outbreak of the war?

Answer 1

An ideal answer will:
1. Discuss the previous trading cooperation, political friendship, and periodic, short-term violent tensions that characterized the relationship between the Wampanoags, for example, and the Pilgrims in New England up until about 1660.
2. Discuss how the relationship between the Wampanoags, Naragansetts, and other Indian peoples, on the one hand, and English settlers, on the other, became strained by the constant growth of English settlements springing up in every direction and beginning to dominate in New England.
3. Discuss and analyze the influence of economic conflicts arising over European livestock eating Wampanoag corn, and from land sales to the English that seemed confining to Wampanoags, and how these were causes in the outbreak of King Philip's War.
4. Discuss and evaluate the role of a new generation of Pilgrims and Wampanoags leaders coming to power in the late 1650s in contributing to the deteriorating relationship and outbreak of war between English settlers and the Wampanoags, Naragansetts, and other Indian peoples in 1675.
5. Discuss the role of colonial political rumors about Metacom's preparations for war, Metacom's actual preparations for war, and the Indian responses to political interference in internal Wampanoag matters by Plymouth authorities contributed to increased tensions between Wampanoags, on the one hand, and Plymouth authorities and English settlers, on the other.
6. Discuss how the escalating and protracted brutality of King Philip's War, including the inhumane murder of previously neutral Naragansetts and their women and children, produced unprecedented mutual hatreds that had transformed permanently the relationship between English settlers and the Indian peoples.
7. Discuss how the annihilation of the Wampanoags and the selling into slavery of remaining Wampanoags and Naragansetts represented stilling dissenting white Christian voices who opposed the new colonial program of annihilation and sale of the remaining Indian peoples in New England into slavery.
8. Write a concise and effective conclusion.