Bacon's Rebellion

What was Bacon’s plan for “the protected and darling Indians”? Why did he favor such a plan, and why did others oppose it?

What did Bacon’s statement suggest about the distribution and exercise of political power in the seventeenth-century Chesapeake? What changes in political power did he seek? What priciples did he believe should govern colonial society?

How might Bacon’s arguments have been answered by his opponents, both in the colonial government among the Indians?