--Mai Blahg--: More Brainstorming and Notes

How class reflect in Bacon's Rebellion:

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.
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

Resolved by Bacon's Rebellion:

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
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

Resolution contributed to transforming the character of Chesapeake society:

Relating with common them of American life today:

--Mai Blahg--