Question

Which of the following was a direct consequence of the European trading of firearms with Native Americans? English insistence that the American Indians bow to the supreme authority of their king Formation of praying towns by Native American Christian converts Increased death toll and violence of King Philip's War Native Americans' refusal to build fences to protect planted fields

Answer 1

The correct option is:"Increased death toll and violence of King Philip's War Native Americans' "

Iroquois access to firearms through Dutch and then English merchants along the Hudson River increased casualties in the war. This greater bloodshed, previously unseen in the Iroquois war, increased the practice of the "Mourning Wars": the Iroquois attacked neighboring groups to take captives, which were ritually adopted to replace the dead Iroquois; thus a cycle of violence and war intensified. More significantly, the new infectious diseases brought by the French decimated the native groups and broke up their communities. Combined with war, the disease led to the almost destruction of the ferret village in 1650