BACON

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BACONS REBELLION

• The American Colonies
• Virginia, 1675

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• ORIGINAL 13 COLONIES

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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!!!

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BUT

• Tobacco is incredibly harsh on the land
• The Colonial Economy Labor Force has become
  one-dimensional
• Education is lacking
• Cities arent developing
• Indentured Servants are frustrated
• high taxes
• no more land left for them

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• What if something goes wrong???

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PRECURSORS TO BACONS REBELLION

• 1. One crop economy
• 2. Indentured Servitude
• 3. Soil Dying

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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

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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 landfor colonists
• Who has the rest???

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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

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Cry for War!!

• VA Governor William Berkeley refuses to authorize
  a war
• Farmers are furious at Govt
• In steps
• Nathaniel Bacon
• Led poor farmers, indentured servants, even
  slaves on a rampage

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N. BACON
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CAUSES OF BACONS REBELLION

• 1. Tobacco Price Fall
• 2. Lack of Available Land
• 3. High Taxes
• 4. No Govt Help

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Bacons Rebellion

• Makes war on Native Tribes for their Lands
• Begins looting wealthy white plantations as well
• Jamestown is burned

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Bacon Organizing His Men
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Jamestown Burned
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EFFECTSOF BACONS REBELLION

• 1. Farmers Start War
• 2. Invasion of Native American Lands
• 3. Attack Wealthy Planters

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But Then

• Bacon dies suddenly
• Rebellion fades out
• HOUSE OF BURGESSES VA Assembly votes to lower
  taxes and open up some land

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THE REALIZATION

• Indentured Servant Labor isnt Working!!!
• They become free and want things
• Like land, freedoms, rights, money
• American Colonies Need a New Source of Labor
• One that wont give them these problems

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OUTCOMEOF BACONS REBELLION

• 1. Some Govt Help
• Lower Taxes
• 2. SLAVERY EXPANDS IN THE COLONIES!!!
• Indentured Servitude will not work

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What was Bacons Rebellion?

• Farmers expressing discontent, making war on
  Native Americans to get more land

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What is the SIGNIFICANCE of Bacons Rebellion?

• The Significance of Bacons Rebellion is that
  African Slavery was expanded in the American
  Colonies
• (Cause and Effect!!!)
• (Changes over Time!!!)