Bacon's Rebellion

Historians today ponder exactly what correlations happened between the Native Americans and the English Colonists. The first meetings with the tribes held levels of trust and suspicion that altered over intervals(Schultz, 2013). Consequently, as the European settlements began to grow and encroach on more and more Indian lands, relations became more strained(Native American Relations & Puritan Settlers, 2016). At any rate, it is seen through the decades of history's unfolding story that the once…

before the rebellion was suppressed and forty slaves were both to death in retribution. A year later, the South Carolina legislature passed a new, more restrictive slave code designed to prevent such an event’s reoccurrence. This new stricter slave code illegalized the education of slaves and made all slaves unaccompanied by their owners subject to the examination and “correction” of any white person who came across them (South Carolina Slave Code of 1740). The fear of slave rebellion was not a…

By the 1700s, the New England and the Chesapeake regions developed into two different colonies due to each colony’s reason for settlement, consisting of religious and economic reasons, their personal beliefs, and their growth in their society. While the settlers of New England immigrated to the Americas to escape religious persecution, the settlers of the Chesapeake region immigrated for more economic reasons—the search of gold. Each colony’s way of life contrasted from one another in the way…

Thereupon, they sent Olive Branch Petition, which expressed their loyalty to the king and to British Parliament as a last attempt. However, King George III was so suspicious with the colonists that he officially declared that American colonies were in rebellion. Eventually, in split of the last loyalty of the colonists for the Britain, George III’s suspicions pushed the colonists on the path of independence of which there was no way going…

Upon arriving at the colonies, these colonists were treated terribly. Knowing how much giving each servant their own piece of land would cost them, the plantation owners made life almost unbearable to the indentured servants so that they would eventually die off before their seven years of work was completed. If this happened the plantation owners wouldn’t even have to pay out anything to the servants’ families either. The meals the workers received were poor with the servants often only…

From the mid-17th century through the mid-18th century, British North America consisted of a number of today’s U.S. states; some of which were New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Virginia, New Hampshire, Maryland, Georgia, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and South Carolina. During these two time frames, there were some principle events that occurred. Following those events contributed to the diversity of the different ethnic groups that lived in British North America. Some of those ethnic groups…

fields as indentured servants. In the 1660s, the labor systems were changing which caused indentured white servants to leave their plantations. Indentured white servants left because of the large land amounts in the Americas were available. The Bacon’s Rebellion made it so white servants could not be kept on plantations which made it politically dangerous for planters to even try to keep them there. This made landowners hard…

qualifications for voting rights set by the House of Burgesses, as well as the Maryland Act of Toleration, the lower class began to stand up against the higher class citizens. This is shown in events such as the Glorious Revolution, the Stono Rebellion, and Bacon’s Rebellion. All of these events impacted and left positive, lasting effects on what developed to be democracy,…

have a thriving workforce (Doc,1). Another reason for slavery is that while indentured servants eventually get their freedom, slaves never do. So while incidents like Bacon’s Rebellion are a constant danger with indentured servants, slave revolts are largely unsuccessful and few in number. William Sherwood described Bacon’s Rebellion and the danger it posed to the free colonists. Under the realization that indentured servants would quickly outnumber the colonists, the colonies turned to slavery.…

Although New England and the Chesapeake region were settled by people of English origin, the two regions became two distinct societies due to the people who inhabited each area. The majority of settlers going to New England were families escaping English Civil War and the persecution of Puritans that came with it. They were looking for religious freedom for themselves. In John Winthrop’s A Model of Christian Charity, directed towards the people headed towards New England on the Arabella, stated…