Nathaniel Bacon

(noun)

Nathaniel Bacon (January 2, 1647 – October 26, 1676) was a settler of the Virginia Colony, famous as the instigator of Bacon's Rebellion of 1676, which collapsed when Bacon himself died from dysentery.

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  • Bacon's Rebellion

    • Bacon's Rebellion was an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony in North America, led by a 29-year-old planter, Nathaniel Bacon .
    • When Berkeley refused to go against the Native Americans, farmers gathered to form a raiding party, of which Nathaniel Bacon was elected leader.
    • Bacon's forces burned the colonial capital to the ground in September 1676.
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    • Nathaniel Bacon led an uprising against Virginia Governor William Berkeley in 1676.

  • Virginia

    • After a lack of reform, Nathaniel Bacon began a rebellion in 1676 and captured Jamestown, taking control of the colony for several months.
    • After the incident, which became known as Bacon's Rebellion, Berkeley returned himself to power with the help of the English militia.
    • Bacon then burned Jamestown before abandoning it, and continued his rebellion until dying from disease.

  • Settling the Colonial South and the Chesapeake

    • In 1676, Bacon's Rebellion occurred as this polarized society and economic deprivation led farmers to attack the local tribes and government in pursuit of the unused Indian lands.
    • Bacon's Rebellion showed how much influence the people could exert over their government when they disagreed with what the upper class in the government decided.
    • While succeeding for a while, the rebellion fell apart when Nathaniel Bacon died, though it still left a reminder of how much influence the average settler had in early American government.

  • The Emergence of "American" Literature

    • Other notable works from this time period include Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The House of the Seven Gables (1851).

  • The Aftermath of Saratoga

  • Administrative Corruption

    • Walsh of Montana, a junior member of the Senate minority, who from 1922-1923 doggedly investigated alleged wrongdoing by Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall.
    • Interior Secretary Albert Bacon Fall became infamous for his involvement in the Teapot Dome scandal, in which he took bribes in exchange for oil leases.

  • An Empire of Commerce

    • This rebellion is known as Bacon's Rebellion.
    • After Bacon's Rebellion, plantations began to rely on African slave labor instead of indentured servants.

  • Poverty in the Colonies

    • Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676 helped to catalyze the creation of a system of racial slavery in the Chesapeake colonies.
    • While colonial laws in the colonies had made slavery a legal institution before Bacon’s Rebellion, new laws passed in the wake of the rebellion severely curtailed black freedom and laid the foundation for racial slavery.

  • Britain's War

    • George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville by Nathaniel Hone the Elder, 1766

  • Romanticism in America

    • Edgar Allan Poe's tales of the macabre and his balladic poetry were more influential in France than at home, but the romantic American novel developed fully with the atmosphere and melodrama of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (1850).