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Analyze the events of Bacon's Rebellion and compare this to modern socioeconomic conflicts that still remain. 1) Give a brief description of Bacon's Rebellion 2) Analyze if his rebellion had merit for his cause 3) Describe a modern socioeconomic conflict 4) Analyze whether their conflict has merit and the steps they are taking are valid.   I already answered and did the first two but now I'm stuck on 3 and 4. I don't know what is a modern socio-economic conflict that is going on right now. Help please

Analyze the events of Bacon's Rebellion and compare this to modern socioeconomic conflicts that still remain. 1) Give a brief description of Bacon's Rebellion 2) Analyze if his rebellion had merit for his cause 3) Describe a modern socioeconomic conflict 4) Analyze whether their conflict has merit and the steps they are taking are valid.   I already answered and did the first two but now I'm stuck on 3 and 4. I don't know what is a modern socio-economic conflict that is going on right now. Help please

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Analyze the events of Bacon's Rebellion and compare this to modern socioeconomic conflicts that still remain.

1) Give a brief description of Bacon's Rebellion

2) Analyze if his rebellion had merit for his cause

3) Describe a modern socioeconomic conflict

4) Analyze whether their conflict has merit and the steps they are taking are valid.

 

I already answered and did the first two but now I'm stuck on 3 and 4. I don't know what is a modern socio-economic conflict that is going on right now. Help please 

 

American Life in the Seventeenth Century 53 The distant English king could scarcely imagine the depths of passion and fear that Bacon's Rebellion excited in Virginia. Bacon had ignited the smoldering unhappiness of landless former servants, and he had pitted the hardscrabble backcountry frontiersmen against the haughty gentry of the tidewater plantations. The rebellion was suppressed, but these tensions remained. Lordly planters, surrounded by a still-seething sea of mal- contents, anxiously looked about for less troublesome laborers to toil in their restless tobacco kingdom. Their eyes soon lit on Africa. Bacon's Rebellion (1676) Uprising of Virginia backcountry farmers and indentured servants led by planter Nathaniel Bacon; initially a response to Governor William Berkeley's refusal to protect backcountry settlers from Indian attacks, the rebellion eventually grew into a broader conflict between impoverished settlers and the planter elite. Colonial Slavery More than 7 million Africans were carried in chains to the New World in the three centuries or so following Columbus's landing (see “Thinking Globally: The Atlantic Slave Trado 1500 1060 "n EA) 0nlu abouut 400 000 of thom ondedun in North Amorica Most
Transcribed Image Text:American Life in the Seventeenth Century 53 The distant English king could scarcely imagine the depths of passion and fear that Bacon's Rebellion excited in Virginia. Bacon had ignited the smoldering unhappiness of landless former servants, and he had pitted the hardscrabble backcountry frontiersmen against the haughty gentry of the tidewater plantations. The rebellion was suppressed, but these tensions remained. Lordly planters, surrounded by a still-seething sea of mal- contents, anxiously looked about for less troublesome laborers to toil in their restless tobacco kingdom. Their eyes soon lit on Africa. Bacon's Rebellion (1676) Uprising of Virginia backcountry farmers and indentured servants led by planter Nathaniel Bacon; initially a response to Governor William Berkeley's refusal to protect backcountry settlers from Indian attacks, the rebellion eventually grew into a broader conflict between impoverished settlers and the planter elite. Colonial Slavery More than 7 million Africans were carried in chains to the New World in the three centuries or so following Columbus's landing (see “Thinking Globally: The Atlantic Slave Trado 1500 1060 "n EA) 0nlu abouut 400 000 of thom ondedun in North Amorica Most
becoming free and acquiring land of their own after complet- ing their term of servitude. But as prime land became scarcer toward the end of the seventeenth century, masters became increasingly resistant to including land grants in “freedom dues." Even after formal freedom was granted, penniless freed Contending Veices Berkeley Versus Bacon workers often had little choice but to hire themselves out for pitifully low wages to their former masters. Nathaniel Bacon (ca. 1647–1676) assailed Virginia's Governor William Berkeley (1606–1677) in 1676 Frustrated Freemen and Bacon's Rebellion "for having protected, favored, and emboldened the Indians against His Majesty's loyal subjects, never contriving, requiring, An accumulating mass of footloose, impoverished freemen was drifting discontentedly about the Chesapeake region by the late seventeenth century. Mostly single young men, they were frustrated by their broken hopes of acquiring land as well as by their gnawing failure to find single women or appointing any due or proper means of satisfaction for their many invasions, robberies, and murders committed upon us.“ For his part, Governor William Berkeley (1605–1677) to marry. The swelling number of these wretched bachelors rattled the established planters. Encouraged by Governor William Berkeley, the Virginia assembly in 1670 disfran- declared, "I have lived thirty-four years amongst you [Virginians], as uncorrupt and diligent as ever [a] Governor was, [while] Bacon is a man chised most of the landless knockabouts. About a thou- sand poverty-stricken Virginians then broke out of control in 1676, led by a twenty-nine-year-old planter, Nathaniel Bacon. Angered by Berkeley's mild Indian policies as well as economic grievances, Bacon and his followers first mer- cilessly attacked Indians on the frontier. They then chased Berkeley from Jamestown and put the torch to the capital. Chaos swept the raw colony as frustrated freemen and of two years amongst you, his person and qualities unknown to most of you, and to all men else, by any virtuous act that ever I heard of. ...I will take counsel of wiser men than myself, but Mr. Bacon has none about him but the lowest of the people.“ resentful servants-described as "a rabble of the basest sort of people"-went on a rampage of plundering and pilfering. As this civil war in Virginia ground on, Bacon suddenly died of disease. Berkeley thereupon crushed the uprising with brutal cruelty, hanging more than twenty rebels. Back in England, King Charles II complained, “That old fool has put to death more people in that naked country than I did here for the murder of my father." What do these accusations reveal about the two men's views of the relation between rulers and the ruled?
Transcribed Image Text:becoming free and acquiring land of their own after complet- ing their term of servitude. But as prime land became scarcer toward the end of the seventeenth century, masters became increasingly resistant to including land grants in “freedom dues." Even after formal freedom was granted, penniless freed Contending Veices Berkeley Versus Bacon workers often had little choice but to hire themselves out for pitifully low wages to their former masters. Nathaniel Bacon (ca. 1647–1676) assailed Virginia's Governor William Berkeley (1606–1677) in 1676 Frustrated Freemen and Bacon's Rebellion "for having protected, favored, and emboldened the Indians against His Majesty's loyal subjects, never contriving, requiring, An accumulating mass of footloose, impoverished freemen was drifting discontentedly about the Chesapeake region by the late seventeenth century. Mostly single young men, they were frustrated by their broken hopes of acquiring land as well as by their gnawing failure to find single women or appointing any due or proper means of satisfaction for their many invasions, robberies, and murders committed upon us.“ For his part, Governor William Berkeley (1605–1677) to marry. The swelling number of these wretched bachelors rattled the established planters. Encouraged by Governor William Berkeley, the Virginia assembly in 1670 disfran- declared, "I have lived thirty-four years amongst you [Virginians], as uncorrupt and diligent as ever [a] Governor was, [while] Bacon is a man chised most of the landless knockabouts. About a thou- sand poverty-stricken Virginians then broke out of control in 1676, led by a twenty-nine-year-old planter, Nathaniel Bacon. Angered by Berkeley's mild Indian policies as well as economic grievances, Bacon and his followers first mer- cilessly attacked Indians on the frontier. They then chased Berkeley from Jamestown and put the torch to the capital. Chaos swept the raw colony as frustrated freemen and of two years amongst you, his person and qualities unknown to most of you, and to all men else, by any virtuous act that ever I heard of. ...I will take counsel of wiser men than myself, but Mr. Bacon has none about him but the lowest of the people.“ resentful servants-described as "a rabble of the basest sort of people"-went on a rampage of plundering and pilfering. As this civil war in Virginia ground on, Bacon suddenly died of disease. Berkeley thereupon crushed the uprising with brutal cruelty, hanging more than twenty rebels. Back in England, King Charles II complained, “That old fool has put to death more people in that naked country than I did here for the murder of my father." What do these accusations reveal about the two men's views of the relation between rulers and the ruled?
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