EMERGENCE OF USA
FOUNDATION OF AMERICAN COLONIES
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Stamp Act
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Quartering Act
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Intolerable Acts
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Bacon’s Rebellion
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Detailed explanation-1: -Shortly after Bacon’s death, Berkeley regained complete control and hanged the major leaders of the rebellion. He also seized rebel property without the benefit of a trial. All in all, twenty-three persons were hanged for their part in the rebellion.
Detailed explanation-2: -The headright system encouraged further colonization and slaughter of natives on lands they had been promised by the Treaty of Middle Plantation in 1677. After Bacon’s Rebellion and the new legislation, more land was taken, and the Native American reservations shrank further than they already had.
Detailed explanation-3: -The oppressive legislation, taxation policy, restrictive voting and representation rights, and emerging social classes were all causes of Bacon’s Rebellion much like they were during the buildup to the American Revolution throughout the 1750s and 1770s.
Detailed explanation-4: -The opposition to Bacon’s Rebellion was Virginia Governor William Berkley. Berkley was the focus of rebellion had suffered the burning and looting of his house in Jamestown, but ultimately prevailed in putting down the Rebellion.