sep 16, 1676 - Bacon's Rebellion
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- Virginia Colony
- poorer class saw that the colonial gov't favored wealthy (Governor William Berkeley)
- people wanted Berkeley to deal with native americans but he had a secret fur trade deal with them so he did not want to ruin the relations
- Nathaniel Bacon led a rebellion against the colonial gov't to push Native Americans further west
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