What events led to Bacon's Rebellion, and why did Virginia erupt into violence in 1676?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Started as a dispute over Virginia's Indian policy. The Algonquian chief mounted a surprise attack on the colonists in 1644, killing about 500. To stop the fighting, the colonists allowed the Indians to relinquish all claims to land already settled by the English. However, more English men came to the New World and began to take the land back. Bacon thought the government was trying too hard to protect the Indians and he thought the colonists deserved the land they were given. He gathered the support of small planters and poor farmers against the Indians and colonial rulers. In 1676, Governor Berkeley pronounced Bacon a rebel and called for new elections for the House, but Bacon was elected and was biased against elite leaders. For months, Bacon fought the Indians and the elites, but died. The rebellion did nothing but strengthen the elites and their positions of power.
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What will be an ideal response?
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a. AIDS. b. a declining population. c. a too-rapid population growth. d. the vast differences between rural and urban Africans. e. ethnic rivalries.
The Society of Friends, or Quakers,
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Unlike the ____ Act, the ____ Act and the ____ Act were both indirect taxes on trade goods arriving in American ports
a. Townshend, Stamp, Sugar b. Stamp, Sugar, Townshend c. Stamp, Quartering, Townshend d. Declaratory, Stamp, Sugar e. Quartering, Stamp, Sugar