Comparison of the Bias over the Pequot War in Four Different US History Textbooks

The Americans and The Enduring Vision have entirely different views on the cause of the Pequot War. In The Americans it stresses that the Puritans were attacking Native American nations for two reasons: their land and their difference in religion. The book states: "Rather than convert the Native Americans, the New England colonists set out to remove or destroy native societies." (56). Consequently the Pequot nation decided to "take a stand against the colonists" (56) for not only themselves, but all Native American groups. The Enduring Vision presents the Puritans expansion as a favor to the Native Americans. It states that the Natives were so destitute that they offered their independence and land for military protection. Subsequently the Puritans put the natives in "praying towns" where "leaders chosen by the Puritans would teach the Native Americans Christianity and English ways." (58). …