The Cause and Conflict
Main cash crop at the time that increased the demand for labor in early Virginia.
Tobacco
Nathaniel Bacon and Governor Berkeley held this family relationship.
Cousins
Indentured Servants
This English joint stock company originally founded the Virginia Colony
The Virginia Company
The labors laws enforced at the time where made to create a divide between enslaved Africans and this specific group of workers.
White indentured servants
Bacon's Rebellion took place during these exact years.
1676 to 1677
This governor relied on peaceful policies and controlled military action on the frontier.
Governor William Berkeley
The continent most indentured servants came from to Virginia before Bacons Rebellion.
Europe
Early leadership in the Virginia Colony was ____ which caused many conflicts.
Weak
Forced journey of captive Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas?
The Middle Passage
One Native American tribe that were attacked along the Virginia frontier
Doeg/Susquehannock
Bacon sat on this colonial governing body by 1675.
Governor's Council
This system was made up of enslaved people who were legally classified as personal property rather than human beings.
Chattel Slavery/Chattel System
Besides tobacco, this other major plantation crop is listed on the final slides where enslaved labor was used.
Cotton
These new laws were written specifically to separate white indentured servants from these individuals.
Enslaved Africans
This specific river was where the fighting broke out between the Doeg tribe and the Virginia militia.
The Potomac river
Bacon made this document in 1676 to accuse Berkeley of corruption.
Declaration of the People
This region of the southern colonies containing Virginia and Maryland relied most heavily on the plantation system.
Chesapeake Region
This specific group gained more political power over time while the contract laborers faced harsh conditions.
Planters
Enslaved people were legally classified as this type of asset so owners could buy, sell, and use them to create revenue.
Property
This specific Virginia planter was involved in the initial 1675 property dispute that triggered the border retaliations.
Thomas Mathew
The entire rebellion suddenly ended in late 1676 due to this event.
Nathaniel Bacon's death.
This exact location is where Bacon and his forces marched to burn down the colonial government headquarters.
Jamestown, Virginia
This British monarch gave private investors the power to appoint governors and later revoked the company charter.
King James I
These specific laws passed by legislatures ensured children of enslaved women were trapped for life
Maternal inheritance laws