Sir William Berkeley's refusal to protect Virginia's frontier led to what event?

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Sir William Berkeley's refusal to protect Virginia's frontier led to what event?



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An overview- Beacon rebellion:

Bacon's Rebellion is an armed rebellion held by Virginia settlers from 1676 to 1677. Nathaniel Bacon led it against Colonial Governor William Berkeley after Berkeley refused to aid Bacon in the killing and forcefully removing Native Americans from Virginia.

Many Virginians belonging to all classes (including those in indentured servitude) and races rose in arms against Berkeley, following him from Jamestown and ultimately torching the settlement.

Sir William Berkeleys refusal to protect Virginias frontier led to what event

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How Bacon's Rebellion started:

The Rebellion was first tried to be suppressed by a few merchant ships that were armed and came from London whose captains sided with Berkeley and the loyalists.

The Government deployed forces soon after, spent many years fighting pockets of resistance and reformed the colonial Government to be more under direct Crown control.

Bacon's Rebellion was the first ever Rebellion in the North American colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part (a similar uprising in Maryland involving John Coode and Josias Fendall took place shortly afterward).


The alliance between European caused servants and Africans (a mix of bound, enslaved, and Free Negroes) to disturb the colonial upper class.


They responded by toughening the racial caste of slavery to divide the two races from subsequently the collaborated uprisings with the passage of the Virginia Slave Codes of 1705. While the farmers were not able to complete the initial goal of moving the Native Americans from the state of Virginia, the Rebellion resulted in Berkeley being recalled to England.


Sir William Berkeleys refusal to protect Virginias frontier led to what event

Bacon's followers used the Rebellion as an issue to gain government identification of the shared interests among all the social classes of the colony in protecting the 'commonality' and causing its welfare. However, not all class welfare was looked after in this Rebellion.

Native American women and European women played significant roles in Bacon's Rebellion as less noted members of society.

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