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Bacon's Rebellion:.
Since the year 1607 with the settling of the English in Jamestown, Virginia had been under English rule. From the year 1642 to the year 1677, Tidewater Aristocrats "wealthy white families whom owned large plantations "lived in the coastal Chesapeake area of Virginia where they resided in their plantations. Here they would grow tobacco and in turn ship the tobacco to England for great profit. These wealthy plantation owners also had power over the House of Burgesses, the first popularly elected legislature in the new world . The Governor of Virginia at the time, William Berkley, had pacified local Native Americans. .
Since slavery wasn't as popular as it would become later on in history, labor was sought out in different places. Virginia had acquired "indentured servants " "poor lower-class individuals whom were from parts of England and Ireland "these servants were used as laborers in exchange to a passage to the new world by their plantation owner. After seven years of labor the servants were free to start a new life. Since the indentured servants could not migrate towards the Chesapeake part of Virginia because of the tidewater aristocrats residing there, they had no choice but to move westward to the backcountry of Virginia. This is where those pacified Native Americans resided. The indentured free servants ran into the Native Americans where they confront numerous amounts of conflicts. The Native Americans would destroy the farms of the indentured servants and make life impossible to live in the backcountry. .
Nathaniel Bacon, a farmer, rises up to confront the House of Burgesses and make a plea to them to help Bacon and his followers defeat the Native Americans. What Bacon did not know was the House of Burgesses and William Berkeley had a secret fur trading deal with the Native Americans for great profit and accused Bacon of treason. Being unarmed and defenseless the servants had to other choice but to protect their land and home.