The desire for land would prove to be a major trigger for violent conflict between colonists and Indians. Indians fought colonists who tried to govern them or take their land.
Increased trade also led to conflict between Indian nations. Because trade goods were highly valued, Indian nations competed with each other over access to European sources of these goods.
Like other relations between European settlers and Native Americans throughout American History, tensions between the indigenous people of the land and the new Americans began almost from the beginning.
From the settling of Jamestown, Virginia in 1607 to the opening of the 18th century, a number of conflicts would occur for various reasons, including the new settlers' demands for food and land, cultural differences, and the need of both cultures to defend themselves from the other.
The resulting white-Indian conflicts often took a particularly brutal turn and ultimately resulted in the near-de-struction of the indigenous peoples.
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