It is often said that for leading Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, Nathanial Bacon is a hero. A great man who overthrew an oppressive government for the rights of the working class man. However many well respected authors paint him in a much different light. Michael Puglisi states his actions as "He was providing a release for the colonists' frustrations; but the army never marched against the colony's real enemies"
In 1676 Nathanial Bacon led a rebellion against two of these threats. The natives, who were upset because the colonists were moving in on the land promised to them, and the upper class, who continuted to raise taxes on the farmers, while they enjoyed great riches. As the fear of Indians grew within the colony, colonists began "taking their arms into the Fields, and the Setting Centinels", because the government refuse to provide the protection they needed.
This only further sparked the already short fuse of the colonists. This unrest lead to Bacon "arose to lead an extra-legal band of over 500 men" against both the government and the surrounding Pamunkey Indians who had never been hostile towards the colonists.
As for the rebellion versus the Virginian government, it was squashed very quickly. Once Bacon died of disease, his followers were still presued by the governement and killed for their rebellion.
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I would have liked to see a template used, and maybe even more quotes for evidence but overall it was well paraphrased and on topic
the length of your piece was good and you separated the information into well structured paragraphs. you also included many quotes that helped support your writing and integrated them pretty well. there were a few little punctuation mistakes but overall nice writing :)
- She talks about how the different authors view Bacon.
- More detail explaining why taxes were raised...
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i think the quote choices should of been better. but it was a good writing.
This is a really good job. i would have liked to see two things in this post. 1 is that you need a few more quotes. But your writing style is very good, and well formed. 2 is that i would lied to have see a little more use of the they say templates for the book. But other than that i found this to be one of the best posts, seriously.
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