--Mai Blahg--: Bacon's Rebellion Brainstorming & Notes

I choose to write the essay base on the theme of class.
The relevant notes I took in History class last period:

Colonial officials kept treaties with the Indians (their land is their land)
Agreement: no conflict on land between Indians and colonists
Angered poor whites because of the limited lands and limited expansion of colony
Farmers/frontier planter need land away form the wealthy elites
"Land-hungry colonists continued to multiply, however, encroaching on native lands and threatening the viability of the treaty"
"Nathaniel Bacon led frontier settlers, who charged the elite with operating the government for their own private gain and favoring Indian interest over their own"
Ousted political elite and put in power local leaders including Bacon
New Legislature: favored small planters and the frontier settlers
Governor Berkeley of Virginia branded Bacon a traitor
Governor Berkeley thought it was "anti-english"
Bacon and his followers declared war on the governor and the elite
Berkeley and his men crushed bacon's rebellion
Tension lessened between planters and farmers
Colonial authorities made little effort to restrict settlers' encroachment in Indian lands

Notes from the book:

Colonists...accepted social hierarchy and inequality as long as they believed government officials ruled for the general good"
Rulers violated the precept
poor land-hungry colonists and freed servants (freemen) multiply
Bacon's belief: elite run the government for their private gain.
old burgesses voted out of office
legislature (minor grandees)
Bacon's law: allow settlers' voice in setting taxes, forbade officeholders from demanding bribes, limits on multiple offices, restored vote to all freemen
Bacon died from dysentery, rebellion crushed
Virginia governor: safer to fight Indians

Websites to look at to get some ideas for the essay:

--Mai Blahg--