...Bacon’s Rebellion was the result of social tensions in the Chesapeake Bay Colony. Tobacco was an important industry in Virginia. 1.5 million pounds of tobacco were exported to Britain in the 1630’s. By the 1700’s, 40 million pounds were exported. Ambitious settlers didn’t have enough land for the crop; they even planted it in the streets and in between graves. There weren’t enough settlers in Virginia to tend to tobacco. Families grew too slow, and Indians died on contact with whites. The Chesapeake Bay Colony imported its workforce from Britain. Landlords limited croplands for sheep grazing and left farmers dispatched and homeless. Many drifted to port cities and boarded ships to America in hopes of a new and successful life, however, they...
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...Bacon’s Rebellion [Instructor’s name] [Class Title] [Date] Bacon’s Rebellion Introduction The historical event discussed in this paper is Bacon’s rebellion. Bacon’s rebellion was an uprising in colonial Virginia in North America that took place in 1676. The rebellion was considered first in history. It was among the first uprising against British authority by the colony and it was the first event that Blacks and Whites, rich and poor, grouped together under one cause. The rebellion was led by Nathaniel Bacon, an Englishman who had recently settled in the Virginia Colony[1]. Background Nathaniel Bacon He had extreme animosity towards Indians-hostile and friendly alike- and developed a worldview that all Indians must be wiped out in Virginia. Nathaniel Bacon was a wealthy 29 year old painter. He was a council at the governor’s office. He rose up as a leader of a group of freeholders (men who own lands and all immovable structures attached to the lands), who wanted to drive-out all the Indians in Virginia[2]. In 1674, these freeholders demanded that Indians should leave treaty protected lands or be killed. This group targeted all Indians, whether friendly or not, thus they are actually starting all out war against Indians. Hostility between Indians and the Free Holders broke out when Doeg Indians raided the farm of one of the Free Holders and stole a number of pigs. The raid was said to be a retaliatory attack by the Indians...
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...the Chesapeake and New England colonies were established by people of the English origin, by the 1700’s they had become vastly different, socially, politically and economically. The Chesapeake colonies interests revolve around earning profit and tobacco cultivation, unlike the New England colonies who are focused on religion, mainly the Puritan religion. Socially, the Chesapeake colonies consisted of mostly or almost all men, who were pretty young. In a Ship’s List of Emigrants Bound for Virginia, the reader can infer that the men on the ship to Virginia are indentured servants because it reads,” … per examination by the minister of Gravesend touching their conformity to the Church discipline of England, and have taken the oaths of allegiance and supremacy.” In the Chesapeake...
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...Bacon's Rebellion "…where we do well know that all our causes will be impartially heard and equally justice administered to all men," as stated by, Nathaniel Bacon. 1 In 1676 an uprising known as Bacon's Rebellion occurred in Virginia. The immediate cause of this revolt was the dissension between the planters and the Indians. Because Sir William Berkeley, the Governor of Virginia had willingly denied support to the farmers, Bacon assumed leadership of an unauthorized expedition against the Indians. When Bacon learned that Governor Berkeley was rising a force against him, he turned away from the Indians to fight with Berkley. This had now become a serious problem for the governor. When news of this revolt had reached King Charles II, it alarmed him so that he dispatched eleven hundred troops to Virginia, recalled his governor, and appointed a commission to determine the causes of the dissatisfaction. Bacon's Rebellion is considered to be the most important event in the establishment of democracy in colonial America because the right to vote and social equality were denied to the farmers by the local government. The right to vote is a small but crucial part of the democracy. During the first half of the 17th century the farmers on the plantations in Virginia were not able to exercise their right to vote. The only people that were able to vote during this time were the wealthy men who owned land. Overall the colonists had not been treated fairly. They had been over taxed and...
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...successful in their initial goals specifically because of the defensive Pueblos, particularly during Pope’s rebellion of 1680. The French were less successful in creating a colony but only marginally so....
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...The Bacon's Rebellion was one of the largest popular Rebellion that uprising prior to the American revolution. This large Rebellion had began as a dispute among the English settlers in Virginia Over the Americans Indian policy. The civil war had erupted pitting Anti- American Indian westerns settlers( this include that there were many slaves and servants in the anti-American civil war. Governor William Berkeley and his allies where encouraged more and more policy toward the indigenous people. In 1876 the rebellion had took the name of the Nathaniel Bacon, that who had arrived as the young men in Virginia into the Elite. Most of all the consequence of wars in the Rebellion were profound than the idea and the sing leadership man. When Bacon had migrated to Virginia to search the personal gain that he entered a precarious world where the American Indians had freed and enslaved blacks, and the English colonist (including many contract with the servants) struggle to the coexist. By the late 1670 only four thousands of the American Indians, had divided twenty different tribes, that continued to live in close to the European settlers. Many of the Europeans settlers accepted the dependent status of the English crown. Governor Berkeley had treated equitably and distinguish between American Indians allies and foes. Regardless about the colonists those people that where located on the western frontier, were deeply evil to all the American Indians. All the details to the rebellion...
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...The expeditions that the Europeans made to the new world expanded their knowledge of tobacco. As a cash crop tobacco had the potential to make a lot of people from England rich because England wanted tobacco to be shipped to them. Yet tobacco also caused socioeconomic and racial inequality in 17th century Virginia because of the limitations toward labor, land in Virginia, and profit motive. Rich plantation owners driving the profit motive imported indentured servants and slaves in order to maximize profits. At first, the rich plantation owners thought that the land was unlimited but when indentured servants didn’t get the land they were promised, they rebelled. This caused large plantation owners to lose money and it caused them to bring slaves...
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...We overheard that a laborer was murdered on Nathaniel Bacon’s plantation, which made him determined to seek revenge, making no differentiation between hostile and friendly Indians. According to Roark, Johnson, Cohen, Stage and Hartman (2014), “Governor Berkley pronounced Bacon a rebel, threatened to punish him for treason, and called for new elections of burgesses who, Berkley believes, would endorse his get-tough policy” (p. 67). In June 1676, the new legislature passed certain measures, of which were known as Bacon’s Laws. We were told that the settlers wanted revenge, not peace, and that they would be following Nathaniel Bacon’s lead, pillaging and ransacking the plantations, gathering the slaves and servants, and burning Jamestown’s capital to the...
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...that were rich in furs. Bacon’s Rebellion was caused by a man named Nathaniel Bacon who wanted to fight the Natives to kick them off their lands. When the governor of Jamestown, William Berkeley, disagreed with attacking the colonists, Bacon attacked anyways with people who agreed with him. King Philip’s War started when the chief of the Pokunoket tribe died on english territory because of English expansion. Metacom, also known as King Philip, became the new chief and declared war on the colonists of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. However, they were different in the way that each of them ended. The Pequot War ended with a treaty that sold the surviving Pequots into slavery. Bacon’s Rebellion ended when Bacon suddenly died after almost winning. King Philip’s War ended when King Philip was beheaded and the rest of the tribe was sold into slavery. The Pequot War’s lasting impact was that it kept the Native’s from challenging the Northern colonies for another 40 years. Bacon Rebellion’s impact was that it scared the upper-class into using slaves rather than indentured servants who could gain freedom and hurt them. King Philip’s War’s impact was that it became the last major effort...
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...England sent more troops to match the increased size of the overseas empire, and to intervene in colonial conflicts, after the Seven Years’ War. Between 1763 and 1768, soldiers began taking jobs in the cities they were stationed in to increase their income. The Quartering Act of 1765 also required inns and colonists to feed and house troops when requested. Colonists did not take kindly to having to feed the men who were taking their jobs and berated and harassed them while they were on duty. The harassment was worst in Boston, and the situation grew exponentially worse on March 5, 1770, when British troops shot and killed five Bostonians after having snowballs thrown at them. This event became known as the Boston Massacre and further damaged...
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...of England created the Virginia Company, starting the voyages and creation of the English empire in the eastern portion of North America. When to Tudor family lost the throne to the Stuarts, King James I, previously James VI of Scotland, came to power. Different from the previous family of rulers, King James I encouraged the thought that only sovereigns answered to God. As he came into to power, the Church of England was divided. The divided Church constituted of reformist Puritans and conservative Anglicans. As a way to create more English power in the Americas, King James I created a joint-stock company, known as the Virginia Company. He hoped to gain profit and to weaken the powerful France and Spain. In May, 1607, the Virginia Company settled the first perpetual colony in Virginia. The men and boys settled near a river about 40 miles...
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...In July of 1676, the historic Bacon’s Rebellion took place in Jamestown, Virginia, where the first successful English colony on the mainland of North America was settled. The Rebellion started off with small planters and frontiersmen’s attack on local Indians, a revenge for Indians’ constant raid of their property, led by a small planter named Nathanial Bacon. Eventually, due to the government’s refusal to help them against Indians and their growing tiredness of life under the dictatorial government, people turned their anger to the royal governor of Virginia, William Berkeley, and successfully overthrew his unpopular aristocratic government. In the end, unfortunately, the revolutionary army collapsed after the death of its leader...
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...During the 17th century, differing social, economic, and geographic factors shaped the Chesapeake region and New England. in different Throughout the century, New England maintained a strong, communal identity while the Chesapeake remained widely scattered. Through the hot river valleys of the Chesapeake had a climate that facilitated staple crop plantations and disease, New England’s extreme climate made mass production of staple crops and the spread of disease difficult. The combination of poor free men, and later, indentured servants and slaves, resulted in a larger rich-poor gap in the Chesapeake. When the New England settlers first arrived, they had strong ties to religion. They believed that it was their responsibility and God’s expectation that they create moral, Christian communities. John Winthrop reflects this in Doc. A by saying their failure would “open the mouths of enemies to speak evil of…God.” The Chesapeake settlers, however, had similar yet, separate, goals based on the economies. People’s main motives were not religious, but economic, there to “dig gold, wash gold, refine gold, load gold,” as per doc. F. This resulted in competition, rather than bonding, over the settlement. Document B reflects that people settled in New England with their families, whereas Doc. C shows that Chesapeake settlers were mostly single men. This happened because the religious freedom and practice was more appealing to families, to form communities that worship God, and resulted...
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...Kimberly Bailo History Review Essay 1 Bacon's Rebellion Early in 1607, the English relocated to North America for promises of new beginnings, wealth, and religious freedom. The Virginia Company had funded the operation under a charter from King James 1 hoping for promising returns on their investment. The new colonists bright and hopeful settled in Jamestown, Virginia only to find nightmares instead of dreams. The conditions for the new colonists exploited a rising tension that would soon escalate into a famous revolt called Bacon's Rebellion. Jamestown was to be the new Promised Land for the English settlers. It was surrounded by water, which would provide protection and allow for mass trading due to the opportunity to install several ports. As such, the Virginia Company believed the expedition would be profitable and King James 1 saw an opportunity to convert the savages to Christian religion, which would make settling much easier since the heathens would be no more. Many of the settlers were not accustom to getting their hands dirty and came only to find gold and wealth quickly and easily. The tobacco industry became Jamestown's wealth, which required many hard working laborers. They were called indentured servants and promised land after seven years of hard work. In addition, many of the new colonists succumbed to malaria, dysentery, and unbearable working conditions. The women were subjected to sexual abuse along with harsh emotional and...
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...Exploration 1. Spain (new Spain) Reasons for exploration o God, Gold and Glory Area claimed o South and Central America without Brazil. Florida and New Mexico in North America Importance of Hernando de Soto, Hernán Cortez, Christopher Columbus o Columbus began first permanent contact between Europeans and the Americas o Hernando De Soto discovered the Mississippi o Francisco Cortes explored the SW (Grand Canyon), brought horses to Native Americans, 2. French (new French) Reasons for exploration o Fishing and Fur Trade Area claimed o All along the Saint Lawrence River and later the Mississippi River to Louisiana Importance of Verazzano, Cartier, Champlain, de la Salle. o Verazzano was first to discover New York and claim it for France; has a bridge named after himself o Jacques Cartier sailed up the Saint Lawrence River and founded Montreal (but was considered a failure by the French) o Samual de Champlain founded Quebec City and is known as the father of New France o de la Salle sailed down the Mississippi, founded Memphis and claimed Louisiana (named after Louis XIV) for France 3. English Reasons for exploration o Mercantilism – more land and raw resources for land-starved English, along with the creation of new markets for goods Lost colony of Roanoke (story) o (2nd voyage to Roanoke 1st hitched a ride back with Sir Francis Drake) Sailed to Roanoke and ran out of supplies. John White then sailed back to England for supplies, but was...
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