King Philip

(noun)

Another name for Metacom, a war chief or sachem of the Wampanoag Indians and their leader in King Philip's War, a widespread Native American uprising against colonists in New England.

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Examples of King Philip in the following topics:

  • King Philip's War

    • King Philip's War was fought between the Wampanoag tribe of New England and the English colonists and their Native American allies.
    • His son Wamsutta succeeded him as Grand Sachem of the Wompanoag Confederacy and when he died in 1662, his younger brother Metacom, also known as King Philip (so named by the English), succeeded him .
    • King Philip's allies began to desert him.
    • Before King Philip's War, they had mostly been ignored as uninteresting and poor English outposts.
    • King Philip, also known as Metacom, led the Wampanoag Indians in King Philip's War.

  • Rhode Island

    • Following the 1660 restoration of royal rule in England, Rhode Island sought a Royal Charter from the new king, Charles II.
    • The colony was folded into the Dominion of New England in 1686, as King James II attempted to enforce royal authority over the autonomous colonies in British North America.
    • During King Philip's War (1675–1676), both sides regularly violated Rhode Island's neutrality.

  • Conclusion: Growth and Development of the Colonies

    • Conflicts flared repeatedly in the Chesapeake Bay tobacco colonies and in New England, where a massive uprising against the English in 1675 to 1676—King Philip’s War—nearly succeeded in driving the English intruders back to the sea.
    • In addition to wresting control of New York and New Jersey from the Dutch, King Charles II of England established the Carolinas and Pennsylvania as proprietary colonies.

  • The Emergence of the Civil Rights Movement

    • Many important figures in the Civil Rights Movement took part in the boycott, including Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph Abernathy.
    • Many popular representations of the movement are centered on the leadership and philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr., who won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the movement.
    • This United States Information Agency photograph of the March on Washington, August 28, 1963, shows civil rights and union leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr., Joseph L.
    • Philip Randolph, and Walter Reuther.
    • Johnson meets with Civil Rights leaders Martin Luther King, Jr., Whitney Young, and James Farmer on January 18, 1964.

  • The Role of Religion in the Civil Rights Movement

    • Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin, the overall presence of religious values that shaped the Civil Rights Movement marked also the 1963 march.
    • King for assistance in the spring of 1964.
    • King sent a "Letter from the St.
    • King and Rev.
    • King spoke on the voting rights struggle.

  • Martin Luther King, Jr.

    • Martin Luther King, Jr.
    • King was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, to Reverend Martin Luther King Sr., and Alberta Williams King.
    • At age 15, King passed the exam and entered Morehouse.
    • King led the SCLC until his death.
    • King's "I Have a Dream" speech electrified the crowd.

  • Pursuing Both War and Peace

    • In 1775, the colonies proposed the Olive Branch Petition to reconcile with Britain and avert war, but King George III denied the petition.
    • The king's rejection gave Adams and others who favored revolution the opportunity they needed to push for independence.
    • In August 1775, upon learning of the Battle of Bunker Hill, King George III issued a Proclamation for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition.
    • King George indicated that he intended to deal with the crisis with armed force.
    • The Proclamation of Rebellion was King George III's response to the Olive Branch Petition.

  • The Glorious Revolution

    • The Glorious Revolution was the peaceful overthrow and replacement of King James II with William III and Mary II of England.
    • The religious tolerance policies of the Catholic King James II of England met with increasing opposition by members of leading political circles, who were troubled by the king's religious convictions and his close ties with France.
    • The crisis facing the king came to a head in 1688, with the birth of the King's son, James Francis Edward Stuart, on 10 June.
    • Portrait of King James II & VII, by Sir Godfrey Kneller,
    • King James was deposed in the Revolution of 1688 by William III.

  • Minorities and the New Deal

    • Philip Randolph, one of the era's most prominent civil rights activist and the founding president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, a group of civil rights leaders that included Bayard Rustin, Walter White, and A.
    • Philip Randolph was a prominent civil rights activist who helped push Roosevelt into signing Executive Order 8822.

  • Literature and the Depression

    • Although his major works, including Tropic of Cancer and Black Spring , would not be free of the label of obscenity until 1962, their themes and stylistic innovations had already exerted a major influence on succeeding generations of American writers, and paved the way for sexually frank 1960s novels by John Updike , Philip Roth , Gore Vidal , John Rechy , and William Styron .