Why did Nathaniel Bacon believe that the present ruling class was corrupt?
Bacon's Rebellion, we know an unsuccessful rebellion in 1676 lead by planter Nathaniel Bacon against Virginia governor William Berkeley's administration because of governmental corruption and because Berkeley had failed to protect settlers from Indian raids and did not allow them to occupy Indian lands.
Nathaniel Bacon and other western Virginia settlers were angry at Virginia governor Berkeley for trying to appease the Doeg Indians after the Doegs attached western settlement.The main griviences leveled at the Governor of Virginia colony,
Bacon controlled the colony , but he died suddenly and without his leadership the rebellion collapsed.
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