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Course: AP??/College US History?>?Unit 2
Lesson 4: Interactions between American Indians and EuropeansInteractions between American Indians and Europeans
Problem
Read the excerpt and answer the question below.
“Various are the reports and conjectures of the causes of the present Indian war. Some impute it to an imprudent zeal in the magistrates of Boston to christianize those heathen. . . . [T]he people, on the other side, for lucre and gain, entice and provoke the Indians to the breach thereof, especially to drunkenness. . . . But the government of Massachusetts . . . [has] contributed much to their misfortunes."
-Source: Edward Randolph, report on Metacom’s War (King Philip’s War), 1685
The ideas expressed in the excerpt most directly challenged the prevailing ideology in British colonial society that: