Question

The South: Politics and Religion (100 points) (answer each question with a tleast 3 to 5 sentences)

1. How was Nathanial Bacon able to get men to join him during Bacon’s Rebellion? In your answer, describe the conditions leading up to the rebellion and what men wanted to achieve from it. Was Bacon’s Rebellion successful?

2. How was the class structure in the American South different from the class structure in England? In your answer, describe at least two examples of how a person could move between classes in the American South.

Answer 1

Bacon's Rebellion failed to overturn the established order in the colony. In fact, after the rebellion, the planter elite consolidated power, and intensified the social inequalities that would characterize 18th century Virginia. It did advance substantial demographic change, however.

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