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Bacon’s rebellion is a milestone in the history of colonial America. Bacon, a Virginia planter, rallied fellow Virginian citizens against their governor after he neglected to fulfill promises that had been made to the people in regards to conflict with local Native American tribes. When Nathaniel Bacon took action after longstanding conflict with governor Berkeley of Virginia, it marked the first organized rebellion of a group of citizens in America against the authority that presided over them. This is significant in American history because the tone of anti-authority and the mindset that it was proper to rebel against unjust or unsatisfactory governments would be adopted again many times in the future of the colonies, including the events directly leading up to the American Revolution.
In the 1670’s, a young man named Nathaniel Bacon and his wife emigrated from Europe to Virginia, where Bacon took up a job as a planter at a plantation. During this time period, the people of......

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