A Young People’s History of the United States
"It was not a war of American colonists against the british. Instead, Bacon's Rebellion was an uprising of angry, poor colonists against two groups they saw as their enemies." (page 35) This statement is true because Bacon had no intentions of starting a war, he was only angry with William Berkeley and the Indians. (Bacon wanted land) "A hundred years before the American Revolution, a rebellion broke out in Virginia. Angry colonists set Jamestown, their capital, on fire." The colonists did this as a way of showing what they were capable of and determined to do. Little did they know, "England was sending thousands of soldiers across the Atlantic, to keep control of the forty thousand colonists." (This caught the colonists off guard). Then the white frontiersmen(lower class) were also mad and started an uprising, but that wasn't all, even the white servants and black slaves joined in on the anger. Their anger was a bit different though because they were mad about the gap between rich and poor people. The frontiersmen were angry because of how the colony was being run. It seemed like there were more and more people getting angry about the whole situation. On the other hand the governer of Virginia, William Berkeley was just trying to keep Virginia from war.
“Whether they be friends or foes:”
Michael J. Puglisi writes in a repetitive way, making the reading long and boring, but that doesn't mean there wasn't contreversial or important facts. Such as in this quote: "There has been a tendency in American history to see relations between Indians and American colonists purely in terms of conflict and separation. Whether in peace or in war, the traditional view has been to describe a gap, intentionally or unintentionally, between the natives and the colonists, with "them" on one side of the impassable chasm and "us" on the other." This is true because the relationship between American colonists and Indians wasn't great. They didn't agree on things and each had their own beliefs and ways of doing things. The way Puglisi used the division between the American colonists and Indians by saying "Them" and "Us" had great significance because they were two totally different people (as in the way they did things) but they were still the same, as human beings. That was a good way to state what actually happend among the American colonists and Indians.
From document number four in the packet, "Noe sooner was this intelligence brought to the Governour (William Berekely) but he immediately called a court and ordered a competent force of horse and foot to pursue the Murderers under the Comand of Sir Henry Chicheley and some other Gentlemen of the County of Rappahanock, giving them full power by Comission to make Peace or Warr." William Berkeley was the man to be at this point, he had the power to make Peace or War and we knew he didn't want to make war, so obviesly he chose peace. Which made many people happy, except of course the American colonists, Bacon, white servants, black slaves, and the frontiersmen.
"It was not a war of American colonists against the british. Instead, Bacon's Rebellion was an uprising of angry, poor colonists against two groups they saw as their enemies." (page 35) This statement is true because Bacon had no intentions of starting a war, he was only angry with William Berkeley and the Indians. (Bacon wanted land) "A hundred years before the American Revolution, a rebellion broke out in Virginia. Angry colonists set Jamestown, their capital, on fire." The colonists did this as a way of showing what they were capable of and determined to do. Little did they know, "England was sending thousands of soldiers across the Atlantic, to keep control of the forty thousand colonists." (This caught the colonists off guard). Then the white frontiersmen(lower class) were also mad and started an uprising, but that wasn't all, even the white servants and black slaves joined in on the anger. Their anger was a bit different though because they were mad about the gap between rich and poor people. The frontiersmen were angry because of how the colony was being run. It seemed like there were more and more people getting angry about the whole situation. On the other hand the governer of Virginia, William Berkeley was just trying to keep Virginia from war.
“Whether they be friends or foes:”
Michael J. Puglisi writes in a repetitive way, making the reading long and boring, but that doesn't mean there wasn't contreversial or important facts. Such as in this quote: "There has been a tendency in American history to see relations between Indians and American colonists purely in terms of conflict and separation. Whether in peace or in war, the traditional view has been to describe a gap, intentionally or unintentionally, between the natives and the colonists, with "them" on one side of the impassable chasm and "us" on the other." This is true because the relationship between American colonists and Indians wasn't great. They didn't agree on things and each had their own beliefs and ways of doing things. The way Puglisi used the division between the American colonists and Indians by saying "Them" and "Us" had great significance because they were two totally different people (as in the way they did things) but they were still the same, as human beings. That was a good way to state what actually happend among the American colonists and Indians.
From document number four in the packet, "Noe sooner was this intelligence brought to the Governour (William Berekely) but he immediately called a court and ordered a competent force of horse and foot to pursue the Murderers under the Comand of Sir Henry Chicheley and some other Gentlemen of the County of Rappahanock, giving them full power by Comission to make Peace or Warr." William Berkeley was the man to be at this point, he had the power to make Peace or War and we knew he didn't want to make war, so obviesly he chose peace. Which made many people happy, except of course the American colonists, Bacon, white servants, black slaves, and the frontiersmen.
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"They say": there was more they say in the second revised edit.
"I say": was eliminated from the entire response.
Quotes: there were more quotes than before but still not enough to make this a great response
Templates: not a whole lot of templates were used, maybe next time
Length: the length was reasonable... could go on about how else the Bacon Rebellion effected history
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