2827788728 | House of Burgeses | legislative assembly in the colonies | 0 | |
2827789781 | Nathaniel Bacon | part of governor's council of Jamestown | 1 | |
2827843411 | Navigation Acts | allowed only English ships to enter American ports; requiring colonists to ship tobacco, sugar only to England | 2 | |
2828055257 | Why was England corrupt? | they still planted tobacco because there was no other cash crop, the indentured servants couldn't earn enough for the owners to buy tools and seed to pay off fees (selling their land) | 3 | |
2828060677 | William Berkely | governor of Virginia; granted large estates on members of his council to keep his position | 4 | |
2828063301 | What happened when Berkely granted these lands to the council? | they didn't have to pay taxes and were also granted jobs like local justices of peace and county judges | 5 | |
2828079728 | House of Burgeses | took the vote away from landless freemen (half of whites) | 6 | |
2828081389 | Resulted in? | political corruption | 7 | |
2828087349 | Conflict between Frontiersmen and Indians | The Indians lived on the frontier of Virginia where the freeholders and landless farmers wanted to settle | 8 | |
2828095127 | What did the freeholders and landless farmers want? | to expell the Indians | 9 | |
2828095675 | But instead? | Berkeley gave the frontier land to wealthy river-valley planters who wanted laborers | 10 | |
2828100179 | What did Bacon do? | led a rebellion against Berkely and his men; and killed Indians | 11 | |
2828102717 | Rebellion resulted in? | House of Burgesses to give back voting rights to freeholders and landless farmers: Baco burned Jamestown to the ground and Berkeley fled | 12 | |
2828108632 | what happened when bacon died? | Berkeley came back and hanged any surviving rebels from Bacon's group | 13 |
Bacon's Rebellion Flashcards
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