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The Church could define moral perfection, but it could not coerce man to attain it.

Pequot war nearly wiped out the Pequots. Religious ideology gave justification to British expansion & Native dispossession

Chapter two describes the interactions between puritans & Natives in the Northeast, How disease was a major influence to colonization, How Tisquantum was enslaved, learned English, and became an asset to the settlers with his many transatlantic voyages & knowledge of the land.