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NARRATION

 

 

Slide 1

Colonists first arrived in America from England in the 17th century. Upon arrival they were shocked with harsh weather conditions, and a new race of man – Indians.

Slide 2

Many colonists settled in Jamestown Virginia, originally inhabited by over 30 Native American tribes.

Slide 3

The leader of these tribes, Wahunsenacawh, greeted the colonists with open arms, and allowed them to settle along the James River

Slide 4

However, as the settlers deemed themselves superior, the Indians rebelled and small wars became frequent between the races.

Slide 5

The Indians, tired of being abused, took matters into their own hands. When the Jamestown colonists refused to settle a debt, the Indians went to a farm and took pigs as collateral.

Slide 6

Although somewhat just in doing this, the settlers found the Indians to be easy scapegoats. They blamed them for the stunting of their development because the Indians were constantly moving to sustain the land.

Slide 7

These quarrels and small raids continued to occur, and created a snowball effect that climaxed in 1676 as Bacon’s Rebellion.

Slide 8

Nathaniel Bacon, cousin to William Berkeley (governor), was the leader of Bacon’s Rebellion. Berkeley desperately tried to avoid confrontation with the Indians, but as Bacon’s rebel group steadily grew, he was left with no where to turn.

Slide 9

Berkeley attempted to control Bacon by throwing him in jail, but Bacon’s numerous followers led a rally that eventually freed him from jail. The majority of his supporters were the underprivileged, lower-class citizens of Jamestown. They found comfort in joining together for a cause; Standing behind Bacon and killing the Indians.

Slide 10

Having been held and threatened at gunpoint, Governor William Berkeley fled to John Custis' plantation on the Eastern Shore, Arkington. Berkeley was able to seize the ship sent by Bacon to capture him and he returned to Jamestown, but was forced to retreat again. Bacon’s forced eventually captured him and burned Jamestown, Virginia.

Slide 11

“Bacon claimed to be a champion for those who lived on the frontier and were exposed to the threat of harm by Indians. Some who have chronicled Bacon's Rebellion present him as a revolutionary seeking liberty, fighting a benevolent despot who had turned into a tyrant and who, at the end, was a cruel reactionary.” (http://www.virginiaplaces.org/military/bacon.html)

Slide 12

The burning of Jamestown was the first colonial uprising and formation of rebel groups, spawning a precedent for years afterward.

 

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http://www.granger.com/featurelb.asp?pb=Virginia%20Before%20and%20After&start=25

 

 

 

Narration (please work on)

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Some Stuff that Emma found...

I was still kind of confused about what Bacon's rebellion actually was...so I think this sums it up pretty well:

 

Economic and social power became concentrated in late seventeenth-century Virginia, leaving laborers and servants with restricted economic independence. Governor William Berkeley feared rebellion: “six parts of Seven at least are Poore, Indebted, Discontented and Armed.” Planter Nathaniel Bacon focused inland colonists’ anger at local Indians, who they felt were holding back settlement, and at a distant government unwilling to aid them. In the summer and fall of 1676, Bacon and his supporters rose up and plundered the elite’s estates and slaughtered nearby Indians. Bacon’s Declaration challenged the economic and political privileges of the governor’s circle of favorites, while announcing the principle of the consent of the people. Bacon’s death and the arrival of a British fleet quelled this rebellion, but Virginia’s planters long remembered the spectacle of white and black acting together to challenge authority. (http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5800)

 

summary of the reading for 9-26:

  • More than hald of thecolonists who came to the North American shores in the colnial period came as servants; the voyage over was awful and nobody was treated well. "Whoever is well off in Europe better remain there. Here is misery and distress, same as everywhere, and for certain persons and conditions incomparably more than in Europe." (An immigrant's letter from America)
  • Colonial laws existed to stop excesses against servants, but they were not well enforced, if at all
  • Sometimes servants organized rebellions or went on strike, but escape was easier."Despite the rarity of servants' rebellions, the threat was always there, and masters were fearful."
  • After the participation of servants in Bacon's rebellion, the virginia legislature passed laws to punish servants who rebelled.
  • Slaves and indentured servants very rarely rose above the lower class status after they had served their time, and usually became tenants, providing cheap labor for the large planters both during and after their servitude.
    Nothing about Indians vs. Europaeans...

 

 

 

  • Emma’s Special Group
  • Colonists blamed Indians for all of their problems
  • -scapegoats
  • Settlers dysfunction among classes
  • Lower class people were able to use Indians as a way to bond over a cause; killing the Indians in Bacon’s Rebellion
  • Especially “dangerous” as lower class and black joined forces
  • Started when they came to America
  • Slaves were treated horribly, indentured servants never were able to escape the lower class even after they were freed
  • Because of oppression, uprising was inevitable…Bacon’s Rebellion
  • Using Indians as an excuse and viewing them as inferior, they were an easy target
  • Many small raids/battles/skirmishes occurred where many Indians were killed, few whites
  • Planter Nathaniel Bacon focused inland colonists’ anger at local Indians, who they felt were holding back settlement, and at a distant government unwilling to aid them.
  • “The native people of the region were also deemed to be an interesting but inferior race.” –

Jamestown 1624/5 Muster Records, Virtual Jamestown, Virginia Center for Digital History, University of Virginia (http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/vcdh/jamestown/Musters/muster24.html).

  • Officials, including the Governor, were "threatened at gunpoint" and Jamestown was burned
  • Governor Berkeley conducted trading with Indians and therefore denied claims of wrong doings by the natives
  • “It was a complex chain of oppression in Virginia. The Indians were plundered by white frontiersmen, who were taxed and controlled by the Jamestown elite. And the whole colony was being exploited by England, which bought the colonists' tobacco at prices it dictated and made 100,000 pounds a year for the King. Berkeley himself, returning to England years earlier to protest the English Navigation Acts”
  • First ships arrived in Virginia in 1606, but the increase of the number of Planters was hardly perceptible. At first, most of their food came from England. The Indians grew jealous of the ground that they held and one night in 1622 murdered all but four or five hundred Englishmen.


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