Civics cartoon
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- Rich white men
- Before
- YAYYYY!!!
- Don't worry, you guys have your plantations and enough money to pay taxes so you still still get to vote. But anyone else has no power because our democracy is fake.
- Governor Berkeley
- During
- Nathaniel Bacon
- After
- Governor Berkeley, as the Head of the House of Burgesses, ruled that only rich white men with a certain amount of land could have the privilege to vote in the democracy. Anyone who fit the criteria was satisfied with his decision but those in the vast majority were infuriated with the unjust limitations forced on them. The poor lived in the western regions of Virginia along with the dangerous natives while the rich lived in much better circumstances. This lead to the outrage of many less fortunate colonists who elected Nathaniel Bacon as their leader in a rebellion.
- Bacon, being the rejected cousin of Governor Berkeley, was equally as outraged at the government as the poor colonists. Together, they wreaked havoc throughout the colony. They fought bloody battles with the Native tribes and gathered more supporters. The raids were made up of both black and white indentured servants who chose Bacon's rebellion for freedom. When Bacon was condemned by Berkeley, he lead his men straight into Jamestown and burned it all the way to the ground.
- As a result of the arson, white plantation owners reacted to the immense anger and aggression shown by the African American Virginians. Soon after the end of Bacon's Rebellion laws were made stating that anyone who came from Africa or its descents was to be enslaved. The previously indentured white servants were slowly let off and a new system of racial distinction was created that would live on for hundreds of years in our nation.
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