HISTORY 347 Lecture 3: Notes on the Chesapeake
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It"s important to note that the victory came w/a cost. 1/10th of the male population was killed or wounded, towns were devastated, and the economy didn"t reach pre-1675 levels until the american revolution. Virginians also experienced conflict w/the indians b/c of land, although the conflict played out slightly differently. After land-hungry virginians attacked two indians tribes, indians raided outlying farms in retaliation in the winter of 1676. Governor william berkeley, however: was reluctant to strike back b/c: (1) he had trade agreements w/the indians and didn"t want to disrupt them and (2) he already had land and didn"t want competition anyway. So the angry colonists [many former indentured servants] rallied around recent immigrant nathaniel bacon, Who held members of the house of burgesses until: they authorized him to attack the indians and was consequently declared to be in rebellion by berkeley.
