Bacon's Rebellion
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- BEFORE
- Indentured Servants
- Native Americans
- The Elites
- DURING
- AFTER
- Indentured servants and enslaved people worked on farms in the west for the elites. The people in the west felt over-taxed and were not happy with their rights. Nathaniel Bacon took advantage of these things and riled them up against governor Berkley because he did not agree with the way Berkley 'dealt' with the Native Americans.
- Nathaniel Bacon
- Governor Berkley
- Bacon and his men wrongly attacked a friendly Native American tribe, who retaliated. He demanded backup from the governor, but when that was denied he enlisted the help of another tribe who he soon turned on after they won. Bacon then went throughout Virginia and gathered more indentured servants and enslaved people to join their group, saying Berkeley was starting a civil war. Bacon and his men then went to Jamestown and burned it down.
- The governor fled Jamestown, but soon after Bacon died of dysentery. without their leader, Bacon's men were lost and English naval squadron, with the help of Berkeley, defeated the rebels and hung 23 of them. Berkeley died and new laws were created, saying that people from Africa and their descendants were to be enslaved.
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