Question

) Bacon's Rebellion highlighted significant tensions within Chesapeake society. What provoked the rebellion and what did it accomplish?

Answer 1

Bacon's Rebellion was started and led by Nathaniel Bacon against the William Berkeley, the governor of colonial Virginia in 1676.

The poor treatement of the black, slaves and the other poor plantation workers.

Partial treatment towards the rich and poor and providing special privileges to the rich and denying the rights as well as rights to the poor.

High taxes for specific people and low prices for tobacco cultivated

Biased nature of William Berkeley towards his close associated and wealthy aristocrats, etc., triggered the revolution.

Nathaniel Bacon gathered men belonging to different backgrounds and created an army. The army became popular and succeeded in drawing attention from rest of the then colonies of America and Britain.

During the rebellion the Jamestown of Virginia was burned deliberately and 23 rebels were hanged.

The rebellion fell apart after the death of Nathaniel Bacon and William Berkeley was sent back to England after an investigation. After the end of the rebellion the wealthy plantation workers were shaken by the fact that the poor people, workers, black and slaves were capable of forming an army and are also capable of destroying a capital or even a colony. This, served as one important turning point in the history of America with many civil wars and revolution against slavery and racism.

Historians believe that the Bacon rebellion made the people belonging to oppressed sections about the importance of unity and also the confidence in standing against the colonial government and their arrogant rule. Thus, the Bacon revolution served as motivation for future rebellions and movements.