![Page 1: BACON’S REBELLION The British N. American Colonies Virginia, 1676](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649ef35503460f94c06064/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
BACON’S REBELLION
The British N. American Colonies
Virginia, 1676
![Page 2: BACON’S REBELLION The British N. American Colonies Virginia, 1676](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649ef35503460f94c06064/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
![Page 3: BACON’S REBELLION The British N. American Colonies Virginia, 1676](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649ef35503460f94c06064/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
ORIGINAL 13 COLONIES
![Page 4: BACON’S REBELLION The British N. American Colonies Virginia, 1676](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649ef35503460f94c06064/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Picture It…
• You are an Indentured Servant in Colonial America
• Tobacco has become the cash crop savior of the colony
• Everyone is trying to make $$$ planting it
• It is EVERYWHERE!!!
![Page 5: BACON’S REBELLION The British N. American Colonies Virginia, 1676](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649ef35503460f94c06064/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
![Page 6: BACON’S REBELLION The British N. American Colonies Virginia, 1676](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649ef35503460f94c06064/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
![Page 7: BACON’S REBELLION The British N. American Colonies Virginia, 1676](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649ef35503460f94c06064/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
BUT…• Tobacco is incredibly harsh on the land
• The Colonial Economy & Labor Force has become one-dimensional.
• Education is lacking
• Cities aren’t developing
• Indentured Servants are frustrated– high taxes– no more land left for them
![Page 8: BACON’S REBELLION The British N. American Colonies Virginia, 1676](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649ef35503460f94c06064/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
• What if something goes wrong…
![Page 9: BACON’S REBELLION The British N. American Colonies Virginia, 1676](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649ef35503460f94c06064/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
PRECURSORS TO BACON’S REBELLION
• 1. One crop economy
• 2. Indentured Servitude
• 3. Labor / Soil Intensive Tobacco Crop
![Page 10: BACON’S REBELLION The British N. American Colonies Virginia, 1676](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649ef35503460f94c06064/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Something Does!!!
• As the market is flooded with tobacco,
• the price of tobacco plummets– Farmers not making much money– Go into debt– Still have heavy taxes
• As tobacco is harsh on the land, the soil needs time to replenish
![Page 11: BACON’S REBELLION The British N. American Colonies Virginia, 1676](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649ef35503460f94c06064/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
What To Do???
• Colonists thought if they could just get more land…– Could grow more tobacco– Sell more– Make more money!!!
• But there is no more land…for colonists
• Who has the rest???
![Page 12: BACON’S REBELLION The British N. American Colonies Virginia, 1676](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649ef35503460f94c06064/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Native Americans • Treaties have been signed• Borders have been drawn
• So What!!!!!!!!!!• Discontent boils over…• Farmers begin to invade Powhatan
Lands to the West• Group of Susquehannocks are killed• Retaliation comes
![Page 13: BACON’S REBELLION The British N. American Colonies Virginia, 1676](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649ef35503460f94c06064/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
![Page 14: BACON’S REBELLION The British N. American Colonies Virginia, 1676](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649ef35503460f94c06064/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
![Page 15: BACON’S REBELLION The British N. American Colonies Virginia, 1676](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649ef35503460f94c06064/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Cry for War!!
• VA Governor William Berkeley refuses to authorize a war
• Farmers are furious at Gov’t
• In steps…
• Nathaniel Bacon
• Led poor farmers, indentured servants, even slaves on a rampage
![Page 16: BACON’S REBELLION The British N. American Colonies Virginia, 1676](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649ef35503460f94c06064/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
N. BACON
![Page 17: BACON’S REBELLION The British N. American Colonies Virginia, 1676](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649ef35503460f94c06064/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
CAUSES OF BACON’S REBELLION
• 1. Tobacco Price Fall
• 2. No Available Land
• 3. High Taxes
• 4. Lack of Education
• 5. No Gov’t Help
• 6. More land = No Problems
![Page 18: BACON’S REBELLION The British N. American Colonies Virginia, 1676](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649ef35503460f94c06064/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Bacon’s Rebellion
• Makes war on Native Tribes for their Lands
• Begins looting wealthy white plantations as well
• Jamestown is burned
![Page 19: BACON’S REBELLION The British N. American Colonies Virginia, 1676](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649ef35503460f94c06064/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
Bacon Organizing His Men
![Page 20: BACON’S REBELLION The British N. American Colonies Virginia, 1676](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649ef35503460f94c06064/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
Jamestown Burned
![Page 21: BACON’S REBELLION The British N. American Colonies Virginia, 1676](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649ef35503460f94c06064/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
EFFECTSOF BACON’S REBELLION
• 1. Farmers Start War
• 2. Bacon Leads Rampage
• 3. Native American Lands Invaded
• 4. Elite Planter Class Terrified
![Page 22: BACON’S REBELLION The British N. American Colonies Virginia, 1676](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649ef35503460f94c06064/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
But Then…
• Bacon dies suddenly
• Rebellion fades out
• HOUSE OF BURGESSES – VA Assembly votes to lower taxes and open up some land
![Page 23: BACON’S REBELLION The British N. American Colonies Virginia, 1676](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649ef35503460f94c06064/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
THE REALIZATION
• Indentured Servant Labor isn’t Working!!!– They become free and want things– Like land, freedoms, rights, money
• American Colonies Need a New Source of Labor
• One that won’t give them these problems
![Page 24: BACON’S REBELLION The British N. American Colonies Virginia, 1676](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649ef35503460f94c06064/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
OUTCOMEOF BACON’S REBELLION
• 1. VA House of Burgesses quiets farmer’s discontent– Lower taxes– Open up Some Land
• 2. AFRICAN SLAVERY WILL EXPAND IN THE COLONIES!!!
– Indentured Servitude will not work
![Page 25: BACON’S REBELLION The British N. American Colonies Virginia, 1676](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649ef35503460f94c06064/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
What was Bacon’s Rebellion?
• Farmers making war on Native Americans to get more land
![Page 26: BACON’S REBELLION The British N. American Colonies Virginia, 1676](https://reader036.vdocuments.net/reader036/viewer/2022062314/56649ef35503460f94c06064/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
What is the SIGNIFICANCE of Bacon’s Rebellion?
• The Significance of Bacon’s Rebellion is that African Slavery was expanded in the American Colonies
• (Cause and Effect!!!)• (Changes over Time!!!)