Discussion Question What situation led to Bacon's Rebellion? (The refusal of Governor Berkeley to use military action against the Native Americans led to the conflict. Backcountry farmers wanted government support against the Native Americans, whose land they wanted. Bacon and a group of backcountry settlers organized their own militia to fight the Native Americans. Later, he seized power from the governor and battled for control of Jamestown.) III. Slavery in the Colonies (pages 60-61) By 1870 about 12 million Africans had been forcibly taken from West Africa and transported across the Atlantic to America on a journey that Europeans called the Middle Passage. The Africans to arrive in Virginia in 1619 were treated as indentured servants. Their status began to change as the number of Africans increased. In 1705 Virginia enacted a slave code—a set of laws that regulated slavery and defined the relationship between enslaved Africans and free people. Other colonies followed with their own slave codes. By the early 1700s, slavery became a recognized and accepted institution, particularly in the Southern Colonies where the work of enslaved Africans was essential to the plantation economy. Discussion Question Why was slavery particularly entrenched in the Southern Colonies? (There the work of enslaved Africans was essential to the plantation economy.)
Discussion Question What situation led to Bacon's Rebellion? (The refusal of Governor Berkeley to use military action against the Native Americans led to the conflict. Backcountry farmers wanted government support against the Native Americans, whose land they wanted. Bacon and a group of backcountry settlers organized their own militia to fight the Native Americans. Later, he seized power from the governor and battled for control of Jamestown.) III. Slavery in the Colonies (pages 60-61) By 1870 about 12 million Africans had been forcibly taken from West Africa and transported across the Atlantic to America on a journey that Europeans called the Middle Passage. The Africans to arrive in Virginia in 1619 were treated as indentured servants. Their status began to change as the number of Africans increased. In 1705 Virginia enacted a slave code—a set of laws that regulated slavery and defined the relationship between enslaved Africans and free people. Other colonies followed with their own slave codes. By the early 1700s, slavery became a recognized and accepted institution, particularly in the Southern Colonies where the work of enslaved Africans was essential to the plantation economy. Discussion Question Why was slavery particularly entrenched in the Southern Colonies? (There the work of enslaved Africans was essential to the plantation economy.)