Bacon's Rebellion

The power of imbalance plays a huge role in the work conditions of those who were non-slaves which led to a lack of labor for non-slaves who needed a job to provide for their own. Bacon’s Rebellion (1679), a group of individuals had jobs that did not want to be taken away which resulted in an idea that slavery on its own affected those who were struggling to defend their values to work. In My Bondage, My Freedom, mostly every slave could…

and when government fell silent settlers took matters into their own hands by massacring neighboring Indian tribes. In return the Native Americans pillaged remote plantations and killed over 300 whites (Henretta, Edwards, Self. p. 50). After Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676, in which he and the fed up frontiersmen burned Jamestown to the ground, government restored free landless men the right to vote and evicted numerous Indian tribes from the region. These actions turned the favorable labor source to…

Chesapeake used indentured servants to tend to their crops until Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676, when they realized the rate of rebellion was much higher in indentured servants than slaves. At that moment, they switched to slave labor like Plymouth colony. The use of slave labor was a common occurrence throughout early American colonies. Slaves provided…

demographic on both sides of the Atlantic The Columbian exchange lead to massive population decline The Encomienda System; led to native slave labor, and conversion to catholicism, and mestizo (indian/white) and mulatto(black and white) -1680 Pope's Rebellion; death of hundreds of spanish colonists/destruction of churches Juan de Sepulveda wrote “Just Causes for War Against the Indians” justified Spanish colonization Bartolome de las Casas, “a Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies”…

Question 1 The invasion of the Americas was a long drawn out process. It took many years for a successful attempt was made at colonizing the Americas. Starting with the Spanish and Cortes, in 1519, an attempt was made by the Spanish conquistadors to take over Tenochtitlan. The conquistadors were primarily around to steal money and goods and split it with the Spanish government. Cortes took along with him, eleven ships, five hundred men, and thirteen horses to the Yucatan try and conquer the…

The location of a society affects the overall lifestyle of a community. This is prevalent in early American history, as the New England colonies inhabited North-East America and the Chesapeake colonies inhabited present day Maryland and Virginia. This difference in settings affected community life in both areas. Though the east coast of North America was settled by the same people of the same ethnicity, the areas developed into two diverse societies due to different religion and economic…

slaves, due to the expense of slaves as well as natives dying to quickly to disease. However, as the 17th century ended the cost in slaves reduced as the monopoly over them was broken, and the need for a more manageable workforce emerged (due to Bacon’s Rebellion). The answer to their problems were slaves, and slaves were a key factor in the economic development in the North American colonies. The Southern colonies were where most of the slaves from Africa were sent to. The tobacco and rice…

fluctuations in tobacco prices caused Chesapeake to plunge into a prolonged economic depression from 1660 to the early 1700s, which caused the discouraged colonists to take their frustrations out on the Native Americans. Ideally, this is what sparked Bacon’s Rebellion; what started as three hundred settlers, led by Nathaniel Bacon, massacring peaceful local tribes, and what escalated into a force of twelve hundred men that led the remaining Natives out of the country. And unsurprisingly, as for…

1860’s to 1900’s After the Jamestown settlers moved to the new capital of the Virginian government Williamsburg in 1699 CE, the settlement itself, became nothing more than farmland surrounded with a ruined church tower, and broken gravestones (Standard 1904:3). Only a few travelers visited Jamestown out of historical curiosity during the eighteenth century and early nineteenth century CE (Standard 1904:3). However, according to Mary Newton Standard’s 1904 archaeological document, Jamestown…

By the 1700’s, the New England region and the Chesapeake region had become two very distinct societies. Even though they were both settled by people of the English origin, New England was based more toward developing longer lasting families rather than finding gold and getting rich quickly, the Chesapeake and the New Englanders had different economic goals, and both regions had very different geographies. The ships that came to New England had very different groups of people emigrating…