Bacon, who had recently arrived in Virginia and was Berkeley’s cousin by marriage, was disgusted by what he viewed as the governor’s disloyalty and unfairness. But his attempts to appease all sides failed, especially when he used new trade rules to increase his wealthy friends’ fortunes.
When the colonists called on their governor for military support, he refused.īerkeley had long tried to balance his colonists’ wishes against those of the tribes on Virginia’s borders. There, they faced threats from Native Americans intent on protecting their ancestral lands. Poor farmers had been hit hard by falling tobacco prices, and many on the borders of the colony’s frontier wanted to expand westward. Only people who owned land could vote, and the indentured servants and poorer Virginians who did not felt disenfranchised. But for poorer Virginians, times were lean. Settlers roll barrels of tobacco up a ramp and onto a ship in preparation for export from Jamestown, Virginia.Īt the time, wealthy settlers had built profitable tobacco plantations and used their crops to pay high colonial taxes.
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