BACON’S REBELLION GINA HARRISON HIST221 I005 SPR 13 PROFESSOR GWENDOLLYN NOBLE 26 May 2013 The occasion of this rebellion, which occurred in 1676, is not easy to recognize but has been determined there were many things that concurred towards it. Bacon’s Rebellion was a riot in the early history of the colony of Jamestown, Virginia; Nathaniel Bacon rebelled and held a riot in Colonial Virginia. Numerous factors made the revolution inevitable, such as, high taxes, decreased tobacco prices, and resentment against unexpected privileges towards those close to the governor, Sir William Berkeley. Bacon, later elected to the new House of Burgesses forced Berkeley to summon because Bacon commanded to forbidden but successful expeditions
Root Causes of the American Revolution There are many different reasons as to why the American Revolution took place. One might argue that the British oppression upon the colonists triggered the Revolution itself through unjust tax laws, land restrictions, trade regulations and political and economic differences. However, one might also argue that the differences between the upper and lower aroused conflict and social unrest, which called for revolution in order for a strong unification between the rich and the poor. Schweikart and Allen’s A Patriot’s History of the United States and Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States discusses these two viewpoints as the root causes of the American Revolution. Although Zinn argues that the conflicts caused by the differentiating social classes in order to dissolve the class divisions was the main cause of the American Revolution, the “other side of the story” is told by Schweikart and Allen, as they reason that it was actually the British who unknowingly burdened the colonies with oppression, which brought about the revolution itself.
Section Il Part A l. Using the documents, explain how lite nailinn revolution was n global revolution in itsformulation, process, and legacy. 'l'hink about social, economic, and poliiical aspects. What additional perspectives are needed to fully answer this question? DOCUMENT-BASED QUESTION SAMPLE RESPONSE 'lhe Haitian Revolution had a global formulation (causation) because it involved the inspiration of the European/Atlantic Enlightenment ideas as we I as a rebellion against the hardships or the plantation economy on the African-born slaveson San Domingue. The Haitian Revolution was global in its processes due to its continual struggle against European colonial powers, slavery and the Atlantic economy, and racist European/American altitudes.
By setting the stage and laying out specifics as he did, the author provides a backdrop against which the reader may compare and contrast pre and post revolutionary American society, and understand the magnitude of the change it ushered in. Wood does a thorough job of explaining how patriarchal society worked and how social mores were reflected at all levels, from the dominance of the father in families to that of the king in the monarchy. He explains the dramatic and unforeseen shifts in society that were mirrored by changes in government. It’s Wood’s contention that society and government were interwoven prior to the American Revolution. Modern readers of Patrick O’Brian get a sense of this intermingling of private and governmental concerns in the way Captain Aubrey and other Post Captains were expected to furnish their own ship-board larders, and how O’Brian’s hero even buys much of his own gun powder.
The 1960’s was an era full of political turmoil that led to the development of a variety of social movements aiming to upset the perceived injustices of American politics, society, and life. Many of these groups were formed and flourished on college campuses. Students for a Democratic Society, SDS, was one such group, representing of the New Left. SDS was disturbed by a political system waging an unconstitutional war in Vietnam, viewed as imperialistic in nature, and critical of domestic policies that harbored racism and economic inequality. As SDS grew, the Vietnam War and American social strife raged on with progress seeping in at a nearly undetectable rate.
Additionally, colonial America spread throughout Atlantic World and in time converted many of these indigenous groups and slaves. Yet, in many cases the conversion of the indigenous people backfired on them. Many took up arms against the colonies, fighting in what they believe was true and dear to them. Despite the failures within these groups, the Atlantic World developed through the interaction among them, through the roles of religion, race, and
Kristin Racis October 31, 2012 The Roaring Twenties The 1920s was a time of significant cultural conflicts in the United States. The causes of these conflicts came with the massive cultural changes that were occurring in America at the time, such as religion, immigration, and prohibition. Prohibition started crime and corruption. The Klu Klux Klan started when immigration came to America, and religion started arguments about evolution, which then lead to the scopes trial. During the 1920s era, religion in America experienced a cultural revolution.
The French revolution brought a series of wars forcing France to change its government and military starting off a modern era. In the 18th century, scientific and technological changes began to drastically change the world. Europe started to create factories to help reshape and build their economy. Also in the 18th century was the Enlightenment of Europe. This helps advance knowledge and reform the society.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the British colonial control of Egypt introduced westernization to a traditional society previously governed by Islamic belief (Sicker 101). At this same period of time, World War II was raging in Europe which brought further disruption and chaos to the Egyptian society. Such change was unprecedented since the introduction of Islam to Egypt brought by the Arab Muslims in the early 7th century (Kassim 21). During this transition phase, Egypt was under yet another important cultural shift that has redefined the morality, tradition, and ethics of its people. In the novel Midaq Alley by Naguib Mahfouz, the story takes place in a poor neighborhood called Midaq Alley in the city of Cairo during the World War II era, which depicts its inhabitants’ struggle with the traditional Islamic values of the past and the forthcoming westernization.
The success of Haiti against all odds made social revolutions a sensitive issue among the leaders of political revolt elsewhere in the Americas during the final years of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth century. Yet the genesis of the Haitian Revolution cannot be separated from the wider concomitant events of the later eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Indeed, the period between 1750 and 1850 represented an age of spontaneous, interrelated revolutions, and events in Saint Domingue/Haiti constitute an integral—though often overlooked—part of the history of that larger sphere. These multi-faceted revolutions combined to alter the way individuals and groups saw themselves and their place in the world. But, even more, the intellectual changes of the period instilled in some political leaders a confidence (not new in the eighteenth century, but far more generalized than before) that creation and creativity were not exclusively divine or accidental attributes, and that both general societies and individual conditions could be rationally engineered.