Who did Bacon believe should bear the guilt for the colony's problems?

Question

In Bacon's Rebellion he believed that someone was to blame, who was it?

For AP US hw

Answer 1

Bacon believed that Governor Berkely, the Virginia's colony governor,

should be blamed for the problems that Bacon and his followers

faced.  It was the Governor which was supporting the view of those

who lived in the "Tidewater", or eastern part of Virginia, that spending

the money on raising an Army to fight the Indians so that the Bacon's

lower class supporters, like indentured servants, could receive land

was the wrong  thing to do. In order to get rich you needed land so

that you could grow tobacco. Those in the eastern part of the colony,

the Byrds, Carters, and Custis family for example had their land and

  wealth and did not feel the need for anymore expensive raising of

  armies to fight the indians. Bacon's group middle class/poor did not

have the wealth and the only way to get that wealth wa by getting

land, from the indians who were going to fight  as if there lives

  depended on their keeping their lands, because it did. Bacon started

his rebbellion to force the government to change and it ended up with

him defeating the government. But as you know he got sick and died.

  The only change was that since most of his army, Bacon's, was

  made up of indentured servants Virginia stopped using , for the most

  part, indentured servants, and started using African Slaves instead.

       Hope that helps. Packers.