HIST 107
Professor Zeman
January 23,2016
Chapter 3 & 4: Persons of Mean and Vile Conditions & Tyranny is Tyranny
I. The start of Bacon's rebellion
A. Virginia was founded in 1676 it supplied the leadership for the American Revolution
a. The colony faced rebellion of white frontiersmen as well as slaves and servants
b. England decided to send an army of soldiers across the Atlantic, they did this in hopes of maintaining the peace between the colonist
B. Bacon's Rebellion began with conflict about how to deal with the Indians
a. Developing an Indian policy that would divide the Indians in order to have control over them
b. Another motive was to teach the poor whites of Virginia that rebellion did not show a superior force, …show more content…
The doeg Indians took some hogs to redress debt and, the whites retrieving the hogs, murdered two Indians
b. Then after that incident the doeg Indians sent out a war party to kill a white herdsman, then a company of white militia company killed twenty-four Indians
D. Jamestown declared war on the Indians
a. They proposed to exempt any Indians that cooperated, this angered the frontiers people, who wanted total war but hated the high taxes
II. They were experiencing a hard time in 1676
A. It was a dry summer, ruining the corn crops, which was needed for food. The tobacco crop was also being ruined, which they needed for export.
B. Bacon himself came from an upper-class
a. He had a good chunk of land and was more enthusiastic about killing Indians, than readdressing the needs of the poor
b. He insisted on organizing armed detachments to fight the Indians
c. He was captured by Berkley and proclaimed him a rebel, two thousand Virginians went to go support him
C. Bacon's " Declaration of the people" showed a mixture of resentment against the rich as well as frontier hatred of the Indians
a. It showed that the Berkeley administration for unjust taxes, favorites in high position because of the beaver trade and not protecting the west former from the …show more content…
The philosophy of the declaration of independence states that the government is set by the people to secure their lives and that it should be overthrown if it no longer does that
c. The declaration of independence talked about government and political rights but didn't cover the inequality of property
d. .
IX. John Locke and his Second Treatise
A. Locke himself was a wealthy man, with investments in silk trade and slave trade, and suggested a government of slaveowners run by wealthy land barons
B. He made a statement of people's government was in support of a revolution in England
a. For free development of mercantile capitalism at home and abroad
b. Locke himself didn’t like child labor and suggested that all children should schools
C. The English revolutions of the seventeenth century brought representative government and it opened discussions of democracy
a. Taxation threatened the security of property was overthrown
b. Two political movements which wanted to carry equality into the equality into the economic sphere
c. Representative government in class divisions and conflicts in england that followed the revolution that Locke supported
d. England was full of riots because of the high prices of bread and the miserable wages that they had