Mmmmm, Bacon (6) [2nd Draft]

Treaties with Indians by the Virgian government needed lack of growth for successful execution.

Recently freed servants required land to make a living, and therefore had to infringe upon the treaties.

This caused the poor farmers to think that the government prized their relations with the Indians more than the expansion of the low-class farmer.

Since the grandees filleed almost all of the government positions, the poor farmers began to dislike the grandees.

This piled upon the already present dislike of the grandees due to the grandees working the farmers extremley hard back when they were indetured servants, which made the relationship between the grandees/governement and the poor farmers very tense.

Governor Berkley attempted to quell this tension by declaring their main leader, Nathaniel Bacon, a rebel.

Berkley decided afterwards that he might attempt to quell this a different way, by holding elections for the House of Burgeses after a 15-year long period of the same Burgesses.

This backfired due to all of the Burgesses being voted out, with their replacements actually being the main proponents of the hate towards the grandees, one of these men being Nathaneil Bacon.

Berkley tried to leave this alone by holding an Indian campaign, but the grandees convinced him to hold Bacon as a rebel again after he passed a few laws in favor of his fellow farmers.

This caused a war between Bacon's men and Berkley with the grandees.

Bacon and his men fought Indians, pillaged grandee houses, and disrupted grandee lives.

Berkley and his men retaliated by burning Bacon supporting homes.

Bacon's side was losing and was struck by the final blow when Bacon died of disease near the time when Berkley's reinforcements came in from England.

Although the rebellion ended horribly, it actually directed the governments eyes towards a solution, the Indians.

Instead of giving treaties, the government actually supported poor farmers going into Indian lands to build farms, which relieved the tension between grandee and farmer.


Sources:
http://www.nps.gov/archive/colo/Jthanout/BacRebel.html
A slightly opinionated site about Bacon and the history surrounding.

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0805681.html
a small summary of Bacon's Rebellion