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Effects Of Bacon's Rebellion On Colonial Virginia
During the 1676, Jamestown Virginia was under the diplomacy where taxes, budgets, land use, energy, infrastructures and common wealth turned into a public issues. Within this time the Native Indians were locals who shared certain lands in Virginia and made a compromise with the current governor, William Berkeley at the time, a treaty determining who owned which land possession. Failed to keep his words, Berkeley caused an overflow of the British Colony upon the Native Indians colony and in return they fought back for their land. A frontier named Nathaniel Bacon intervene through popularity and wealth and stir up a rebellion we know today as the Bacon’s Rebellion. Bacon’s Rebellion had an ill-fated effect on both the British colony and the Native

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