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What are three social tensions that Bacon's Rebellion reveals?
12-14-2012, 07:01 AM
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What are three social tensions that Bacon's Rebellion reveals?
What are three social tensions that Bacon's Rebellion reveals?

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12-14-2012, 07:09 AM
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Bacon's Rebellion can be attributed to a myriad of causes, all of which led to dissent in the Virginia colony. Economic problems, such as declining tobacco prices, growing commercial competition from Maryland and the Carolinas, an increasingly restricted English market, and the rising prices from English manufactured goods (mercantilism) caused problems for the Virginians. There were heavy English losses in the latest series of naval wars with the Dutch and, closer to home, there were many problems caused by weather. Hailstorms, floods, dry spells, and hurricanes rocked the colony all in the course of a year and had a damaging effect on the colonists. These difficulties encouraged the colonists to find a scapegoat against whom they could vent their frustrations and place the blame for their misfortunes.

http://www.nps.gov/archive/colo/Jthanout/BacRebel.html

Bacon's Rebellion, popular revolt in colonial Virginia in 1676, led by Nathaniel Bacon. High taxes, low prices for tobacco, and resentment against special privileges given those close to the governor

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0805681.html

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