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Captains John Mason and John Underhill attacked and burned Pequot forts at Mystic, Connecticut, murdering 600 Indians and starting the Pequot War.
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Three Wampanoag Indians were executed and this cause retaliation. Boston and Plymouth united to fight against the Indians while Nipmuck Indians and Wampanoags united to attack settlements in Massachusetts. The New England Confederation reacted to this by officially declaring war on King Philip and raising an army. The Wampanoags defeated the settlers near Deerfield on September 18th.
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An armed rebellion by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. The colony's disorganized frontier political structure combined with accumulating grievances (refusing to allow Bacon to be a part of his fur trade with the Native Americans and Doeg tribe Indian attacks) helped motivate a popular uprising against Berkeley. Tobacco planters asked to attack the Susquehannock Indians but were denied. The colonists killed many Inidans.
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In Maplewood, NJ
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In Hartford, CT
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This act forcibly moved virtually all Indians from the Southeast to the present states of Arkansas and Oklahoma, a journey known as the Trail of Tears.
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Around 700 to 1,000 emigrants left for Oregon, to travel westward into new land.
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A journalist named John O'Sullivan coined the term "Manifest Destiny," the belief that Americans and American institutions are morally superior and therefore Americans are morally obligated to spread those insitutions in order to free people in the Western Hemisphere from European monarchies and to uplift less civilized societies such as the Native American tribes.
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When gold was discovered in California, waves of people poured into the area. The California Gold Rush was a major factor in expansion west of the Mississippi.
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In Locust Valley, NY
