How Did Bacon's Rebellion Influence The American Revolution

Historians considered the Bacon’s Rebellion to be the first sentiment of revolutionary in America, which may have to inspire the American Revolution a hundred years later. The rebellion led by a young rebel Nathaniel Bacon, who was a settler and planter recently arrived at James River in 1674. The rebellion led Bacon Nathaniel perhaps one of those most complicated yet fascinating periods of the America history. Although it was not successful, the rebellion had demonstrated that a limited democracy did not work if landless and proletariat men who feel disfranchisement and had no realistic expectation to pursue happiness and prosperity.

Since the end of the second Powhatan War in 1646, the Powhatan tribe held the land north of the York River, effectively hold off the settlers’ expansion. Land hunger was a significant problem and colonial officials were

Seeing Bacon's action as a straight contest and defy of his authority, the outraged elderly Governor, instead of granting him a commission, relieved Bacon from his council seat. The Governor also ordered Bacon to terminate his campaign and report to him forthwith in Jamestown, or risk being declared a rebel.

Not much of being intimidated, Bacon replied by demanding an official military commission to lead a campaign against the Natives, indiscriminately. When refused, Bacon ignored Berkeley's orders and continued his plant. With Nathaniel Bacon's disobeyed Governor’s orders, the quickly-spread uprising throughout the Tidewater Virginia, known as Bacon's Rebellion, has begun. Upon arrived at the Natives’ village of the Occaneechee Tribe, who lived on a small island in Roanoke River, Bacon and his men approached them as some allies and then suddenly attacked and looted their stockpile of beaver