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AP US - Unit One (Bacon's Rebellion)
P. 66-76
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History
11th Grade
09/25/2010

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*Bacon's Rebellion
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Governor WIlliam Berkeley is elitist, whores land for rich, poorer farmers must displace Indians. War breaks out between Susquehannocks and Virginia, Bacon's overseer over a village is killed, the notorious Native American killer gathers up rag tag band of lower class (servants, slaves, farmers) to exterminate Indians, Berkeley wants to protect deer skin trade, orders Bacon to stop. Bacon responds by burning down Jamestown and arresting Berkeley, Bacon dies of swamp fever, Berkeley executes rebels, Berkeley is removed as gov.
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Culperer's Rebellion
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In North Carolina, colonists rebel and imprison officials for strict enforcement of navigation act. Create consensual govt there, 2 years, until Culperer removed from power, no punishment.
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*Indentured Servants
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16th Cent = Black + white servants worked together, many blacks
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*Reasons for transition from indentured Servitude to Slavery
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Land was getting scarce in the South, plantation owners don't want indentured servants taking land.
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Triangular Trade
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A trade route to receive slaves.
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Middle Passage
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The Middle Passage refers to the forcible passage of African people from Africa to the New World, as part of the Atlantic slave trade
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Staple Crops
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Cash crops, like tobacco, rice.
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Phillis Wheatly (1754-1784)
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Black Poetess...published book of poems in late 1700s
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Stono Rebellion
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Uprising of slaves in South Carolina, planters brutally crushed rebellion.
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