Bacon's Rebellion Pre-Write

Bacon's Rebellion cause and effect Essay

Themes: Race, Class, Politics, and economics choose one
- How theme was reflected in Bacon's Rebellion
- How theme was resolved by Bacon's Rebellion
- How theme contributed to transform Chesapeake society in colonial times
- Relate theme with common theme in American life today

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Subject Matter: General
Bacon's Words and reforms

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[basis of "The American Promise" textbook]
Whites didn't think that the Native Americans were lesser by skin, rather than the fact that they were rather "un-English" in their customs and behavior, thusly referred to as savages. So, when the elites took control of the government and the treaty with Native Americans was put it place, they defended it. For, the Native Americans relinquished claim to all land already settled by the English and the English would not begin expansion under fear of conflict with the the Native Americans. But, as the settlers freed from indenture continued to multiply, the treaty began to impose a threat to the settlers, for there was no new land to acquire without conflict with the Native Americans.

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Within the rebellion, Nathanial Bacon and his compatriots fought initially against Native Americans. Albeit their focuses changed from the time they started their initial goal (the government) they continued to fight the Native Americans until they could acquire land.

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In the end, after the revolt, the colony decided that it was better to fight Native Americans rather than themselves, as such caused many more problems both politically and economically. Soon after, as the servant labor system began to slowly weaken (which was the main cause of such unrest) a slave labor system was put into place. In the year 1700, 1/8 of the population was African American and, as quoted from the text, "all slaves were black, almost all blacks were slaves; all freeman were whites, all whites were free or in temporarily indentured service." Thus, as before, the Englishman thought the African Americans lesser due to the dark pigmentation of their skin, in which they thought black to be in correlation of evil, "stainted with dirt," atrocious, and the like whilst thinking themselves were better, in the sense that white meant pure, good, and beautiful. Social heirarchy was soon defined by race and skin color instead of class and governmental power.

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Discrimination is common today, albiet we, as American citizens, don't believe it as such. It has grown less dominant in recent years, but it there none the less.