Bacon's Rebellion

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    Everyone was grouped by class rather than race. Equality for Africans changed when the Bacon’s Rebellion started. The rebellion was mostly for poor white people. An uprising was occurring because the elite planter class were not treating them fairly. Not only did they have to work months or even years to be eligible to obtain land, there would be times where…

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    English colonies. The labor import from Africa became more and more frequently, and a small society system formed in the Chesapeake area, which simply included landowners, poor white labors, and African slaves. However, planters were still afraid of rebellions on the part of poor and black servants. According to the book, slaves from African interior had a contract about language and commerce of the Atlantic system, which means newly imported slaves did not speak English, and planters pick…

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    where we stand now. Easy wouldn’t be in the vocabulary of the first settlers that took action to start the new settlement of Plymouth and Jamestown, nor the struggles they were faced with in Chesapeake, or the consequences that took place in Bacon’s Rebellion. Within a year, more than half the population…

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    ‘City Upon an Hill’ – When John Winthrop gave his “City Upon a Hill” sermon, the Puritans were still making their way toward the New World. During this time, the Puritans were escaping pressures in England and wished to be able to practice their religion and live under their ideals without the oppression they faced in the Old World. Winthrop’s sermon allowed the Puritans to remain hopeful about their future endeavors in the New World and that their efforts would not be lost. Furthermore, this…

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    4. There were many regional characteristics evident in the British colonies. Southern colonies had hot, humid weather, mild winters, and swampy marshes contributed to high mosquito populations, thus making colonists more susceptible to diseases like malaria and had shorter life spans. Southern colonies also had good farmland and long growing seasons that enabled mass production of cash crops like tobacco. Additionally, rivers and coasts provided access to the sea. The Chesapeake…

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    Some colonists always had racial and cultural prejudices against blacks. Segments of the English population believed in negative stereotypes about Africans such as “black color is God’s punishment for sin”, and that blacks practice witchcraft, cannibalism and savagery. Prominent colonists, such as John Smith in Virginia, were extremely opinionated and made no bones about their view that African blacks were idle and had devil like characteristics. “The combination of color, language, dress and…

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    Zinn Chapter 1 Analysis

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    Zinn investigates the creation of the rebellion using historical causation to obtain a better understanding of the realistic circumstances behind the founding of the United States. Following the aftermath of the Seven Years’ War, colonial leaders gained influence over England, due to increased…

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    Indentured Servitude In the decade following the settlement in Jamestown by the Virginia Company in 1607, indentured servants began to arrive in America. With the end of the Thirty Year War, Europe’s economy was left in shambles, and many skilled and unskilled laborers were left without work. This couldn’t have come at a better time for the new colonies as early settlers soon realized help was needed to care for the immense amount of land they had acquired. However, through the course of…

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    It targets African Americans and other people of color in order to create further racial divide. African slaves, after Nathaniel Bacon’s Rebellion, were dehumanized and made into inferior beings in order to show the difference between black people and white people. During Jim Crow harsh and discriminatory laws were put in place to keep the races from coming together. Now, through mass incarceration…

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    involved all the indians. All of them changed American history in some sort of a way. Two of many major events that happened in this time where King Phillips War, and also in Virginia, Bacons Rebellion. King Phillips War ended any relations between the indians and the New England colonists. While Bacons rebellion was him using poor frontier farmers for British Rule. Those are two major conflicts of this time but there are many more. The Indians and colonist had major conflicts from the…

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