SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SOUTHERN COLONIES SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH
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The Toleration Act of 1649
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the founding of Jamestown
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Bacon’s Rebellion
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -After months of conflict, Bacon’s forces, numbering 300–500 men, moved on Jamestown, which was occupied by Berkeley’s forces, besieging the town. Bacon’s men captured and burned to the ground the colonial capital on September 19.
Detailed explanation-2: -Bacon’s Rebellion was triggered when a grab for Native American lands was denied. Bacon’s Rebellion was triggered when a grab for Native American lands was denied. Jamestown had once been the bustling capital of the Colony of Virginia. Now it was a smoldering ruin, and Nathaniel Bacon was on the run.
Detailed explanation-3: -1619 Arrival of first Africans. 1620 Arrival of 100 women to be brides for the settlers. 1622 Indian uprising; killed one third of the English population.
Detailed explanation-4: -Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676 was the last major uprising of enslaved blacks and white indentured servants in Colonial Virginia. One consequence of the failed rebellion was the intensification of African slavery and the social separation of blacks and whites in Virginia.