Bacon’s Rebellion Was America’s First Major Uprising

Bacon’s Rebellion Was America’s First Major Uprising

America’s pre-independence history is sprinkled with glimpses of the ideas that would lead to revolutionary sentiment and, eventually, the outbreak of war. One such stirring was Bacon’s Rebellion in colonial Virginia. However, hindsight and research have brought new questions to these events in the years since. Was the rebellion a measure to seek equality in the New World? Or was it a power struggle between small groups of men? Regardless of its…