How Bacon Cooked up a Rebellion: A Colonial Spat

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  • Benjamin Fights Alongside Bacon
  • Freedom over there!
  • Living by the Rules
  • They didn’t think it was fair.
  • They wanted a better future.
  • They were looking for a way to makelife better
  • This man was named Nathaniel Bacon.
  • A quick look at Bacons Rebellion
  • FEAR!SCARED!READY?
  • Wayback, long before you or I were born, there were these people who lived in aplace where they felt they would be free; the 13 Colonies.
  • Even though they moved there to be free, they still had to follow the rules of a king.
  • The king had strict rules, and that made them feel like they couldn’t do anything.They thought their king would protect them from other people attacking them, but he didn’t.
  • One of these people was Benjamin. He was a farmer in a place called Jamestown. He wanted change like everyone else he knew.
  • One day, Benjamin heard a man speak up about these problems to someone who worked for the king, William the governor. This man was named Nathaniel Bacon.
  • He was an English merchant adventurer who emigrated to the Virginia Colony, where he sat on the Governor's Council
  • Nathaniel told the governor that it was not okay to not help the people, especially from being attacked by others.
  • Benjamin and a lot of the other colonists liked what Nathaniel was saying and decided to join him to help get the government to listen.
  • It was scary for Benjamin and his friends, but they knew that they would have to fight to get the governor and the king to listen to them.
  • Things didn’t go the way they wanted, so Benjamin, Nathaniel, and the colonists decided to fight.
  • They did many things that they normally wouldn’t do if the governor had listened to them; they fought and they burned down the governor’s house.
  • The colonists were very brave. Unfortunately, Nathaniel died, and Benjamin and the other colonists were very sad.
  • Eventually, their fight had to end without many things they wanted to get from fighting, they didn’t get.
  • Even though they didn’t win, the King now knew that the colonists were not happy. Even though it wasn’t much, the King’s government provided some better protection of the colonists
  • He thought that would be enough to keep the colonies under their control....
  • .....but Benjamin and Nathaniel and their friends inspired many others that followed them.
  • They sparked an attitude of independence and helped others feel like they could stand up against the King and eventually fight to create the United States of America.The End