Monday, October 8, 2007

Rebellion de Bacon

As I was studying up on Bacon's Rebellion I found a totally other view on things from a government site. On the site I found that Bacon was the cousin of the wife of Governor Berkeley and that Berkeley even gave Bacon a spot on the city counsel before he rebelled against him. He rebelled when Berkeley banned traders from trading ammunition with indians and since Bacon was a trader this made him extremely unhappy. Hurricanes, hailstorms, floods, dry spells and economic problems over in the old world contributed to Bacon's and the colonists worrys. At first I thought all this information was totally opposite to what we had learned in the book but when I took a closer look I saw that the information could actually go together. It's good that you had us do this though because it gave us a much broader few of Bacon's rebellion then just the oppinions of a few educational book writers.

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