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Question: Who did Bacon believe should bear the guilt for the colony's problems!?
In Bacon's Rebellion he believed that someone was to blame, who was it!?
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Bacon believed that Governor Berkely, the Virginia's colony governor,
should be blamed for the problems that Bacon and his followers
faced!. It was the Governor which was supporting the view of those
who lived in the "Tidewater", or eastern part of Virginia, that spending
the money on raising an Army to fight the Indians so that the Bacon's
lower class supporters, like indentured servants, could receive land
was the wrong thing to do!. In order to get rich you needed land so
that you could grow tobacco!. Those in the eastern part of the colony,
the Byrds, Carters, and Custis family for example had their land and
wealth and did not feel the need for anymore expensive raising of
armies to fight the indians!. Bacon's group middle class/poor did not
have the wealth and the only way to get that wealth wa by getting
land, from the indians who were going to fight as if there lives
depended on their keeping their lands, because it did!. Bacon started
his rebbellion to force the government to change and it ended up with
him defeating the government!. But as you know he got sick and died!.
The only change was that since most of his army, Bacon's, was
made up of indentured servants Virginia stopped using , for the most
part, indentured servants, and started using African Slaves instead!.
Hope that helps!. Packers!.
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