2. Compare the Indian uprising in Virginia in 1622 with Bacon's Rebellion in 1675. What were the consequences of each for Virginia's economic and social development?
Upon reading all of the questions and trying to figure out which one that I would chose, I decided to go with the second question. In comparing that of the Indian War of 1622 and Bacon’s Rebellion in 1675, and to what became of Virginia’s economic and social expansion. In 1622, Chief Opechancanough had coordinated a surprise attack by twelve Indian chiefdoms that killed 347 English settlers, nearly one-third of the white population (Henretta 46). The English fought back by taking the land, food and crops and turning some into slaves and turned into a ten-year war. As the result, King James I revoked the charter of the Virginia Company and made it a royal colony in 1624. He then established within the …show more content…
The Indians retaliated back and killing 300 whites on the outlying plantations. The settlers dismissed as a military plot to impose higher taxes and have it all to themselves. Berkeley had Bacon arrested but Bacons army had compelled the Governor to release Bacon. Which led to the change in the structure of the colony’s government, which also restored voting rights to landless freeman. Tobacco prices dropped, corruption in politics, competition had grown in Maryland, and a strict English Market as prices rose from the English manufactured goods. As a result of the rebellion, they were able to stop the corruption get yeomen into office in which they cut the taxes and expelled certain Indians from the region. Most important, planters forestalled another rebellion by poor whites by cutting the use of indentured servants and instead importing thousands of African laborers (Henretta
Upon reading all of the questions and trying to figure out which one that I would chose, I decided to go with the second question. In comparing that of the Indian War of 1622 and Bacon’s Rebellion in 1675, and to what became of Virginia’s economic and social expansion. In 1622, Chief Opechancanough had coordinated a surprise attack by twelve Indian chiefdoms that killed 347 English settlers, nearly one-third of the white population (Henretta 46). The English fought back by taking the land, food and crops and turning some into slaves and turned into a ten-year war. As the result, King James I revoked the charter of the Virginia Company and made it a royal colony in 1624. He then established within the …show more content…
The Indians retaliated back and killing 300 whites on the outlying plantations. The settlers dismissed as a military plot to impose higher taxes and have it all to themselves. Berkeley had Bacon arrested but Bacons army had compelled the Governor to release Bacon. Which led to the change in the structure of the colony’s government, which also restored voting rights to landless freeman. Tobacco prices dropped, corruption in politics, competition had grown in Maryland, and a strict English Market as prices rose from the English manufactured goods. As a result of the rebellion, they were able to stop the corruption get yeomen into office in which they cut the taxes and expelled certain Indians from the region. Most important, planters forestalled another rebellion by poor whites by cutting the use of indentured servants and instead importing thousands of African laborers (Henretta