Linkage Activity

Linkage Activity

Using the 5 terms below write a paragraph of no more than 6 sentences that explains the connection between.
Virginia
Tobacco
Indentured Servitude
Bacon's Rebellion
Slavery

Virginia first settled in 1607 by the British was founded by the London Company in the hopes of finding mineral riches, instead settlers discovered the value of tobacco which became the chief crop and currency. The settlements were inhabited and worked largely by indentured servants, people who agreed to have their passage to America had been funded by investors to whom they would then belong to for a matter of time (5-7 years) under indentured servitude. Eventually, the growing need for work hands lead to the purchase of African American workers who's indentured servitude often turned into full-fledged slavery. After years of unfair treatment of the slaves and servants Bacon was unsatisfied with the elite upper class and angry that the governor would not legitimise a group of men to go kill Indians. Bacon rallied a group of white and black armed men to fight Indians, the governor  and eventually burn down Jamestown. After the end of Bacons rebellion, stopped by newly arrived soldiers, the government decided to move away from using white slaves, who were entitled to gun ownership in order to prevent future uprisings from the African Americans whose rights they could easily design.