Bacon's Rebellion Flashcards

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