Was Bacon's Rebellion Justified
VI. Bacon’s Rebellion
A. Berkeley's fears of the freedmen were justified.
B. In 1676, sparked not by a Dutch invasion but by an Indian attack, rebellion swept Virginia.
C. It began almost as Berkeley had predicted, when a group of volunteer Indian fighters turned from a fruitless expedition against the Indians to attack their rulers.
D. Bacon's Rebellion was the largest popular rising in the colonies before the American Revolution.
Sooner or later nearly everyone in Virginia got in on it, but it began in the frontier counties of Henrico and New Kent, among men whom the governor and his friends consistently characterized as rabble.
E. As it spread eastward, it turned out that there were rabble everywhere, and Berkeley understandably
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A. Berkeley's fears of the freedmen were justified.
B. In 1676, sparked not by a Dutch invasion but by an Indian attack, rebellion swept Virginia.
C. It began almost as Berkeley had predicted, when a group of volunteer Indian fighters turned from a fruitless expedition against the Indians to attack their rulers.
D. Bacon's Rebellion was the largest popular rising in the colonies before the American Revolution.
Sooner or later nearly everyone in Virginia got in on it, but it began in the frontier counties of Henrico and New Kent, among men whom the governor and his friends consistently characterized as rabble.
E. As it spread eastward, it turned out that there were rabble everywhere, and Berkeley understandably
raised