BACON’S REBELLION The American Colonies Virginia, 1675
ORIGINAL 13 COLONIES
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!!!
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
• What if something goes wrong? ? ?
PRECURSORS TO BACON’S REBELLION • 1. One crop economy • 2. Indentured Servitude • 3. Soil Dying
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
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? ? ?
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
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
N. BACON
CAUSES OF BACON’S REBELLION • • 1. Tobacco Price Fall 2. Lack of Available Land 3. High Taxes 4. No Gov’t Help
Bacon’s Rebellion • Makes war on Native Tribes for their Lands • Begins looting wealthy white plantations as well • Jamestown is burned
Bacon Organizing His Men
Jamestown Burned
EFFECTS OF BACON’S REBELLION • 1. Farmers Start War • 2. Invasion of Native American Lands • 3. Attack Wealthy Planters
But Then… • Bacon dies suddenly • Rebellion fades out • HOUSE OF BURGESSES – VA Assembly votes to lower taxes and open up some land
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
OUTCOME OF BACON’S REBELLION • 1. Some Gov’t Help – Lower Taxes • 2. SLAVERY EXPANDS IN THE COLONIES!!! – Indentured Servitude will not work
What was Bacon’s Rebellion? • Farmers expressing discontent, making war on Native Americans to get more land
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!!!)
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