Bacon's+Rebellion

Bacon's Rebellion was led by Nathaniel Bacon in 1676 at Jamestown. Bacon burned down the town of Jamestown in 1676 with a group of other people who were rebelling. He and his rebels came into town with torches made from wood and started throwing them into empty buildings and then burnt down the whole town. Bacon and the others were angry because they were not getting treated fairly by the rich. Nathaniel Bacon was a young lawyer who emigrated from London in Great Britain and he became a planter in the Virginia colonies. Here is a great website about [|Bacon's Rebellion] where I read this: "Bacon's Rebellion can be attributed to a myriad of causes, all of which led to dissent in the Virginia colony. Economic problems, such as declining tobacco prices, growing commercial competition from Maryland and the Carolinas, an increasingly restricted English market, and the rising prices from English manufactured goods (mercantilism) caused problems for the Virginians."

Nathaniel Bacon was a young lawyer who emigrated from London in Great Britain and he became a planter in the Virginia colonies.



This picture shows why Bacon's Reblion happened. In Jamestown, the rich were in the center, which force the poor to live on the outside of town. The poor were by the Indians land, but the rich would not help them, so that is why the poor went and rebleid against the rich.