10/15/2008

Draft #1

Rough Draft#1
The Indians “before they would deprive them [the settlers] of their lives, they would take great deal of time to deprive them first their skins… with there teeth, tear the nails off [their fingers and their] toes.”The Natives were causing much heartache for the meager farmers and frontiersmen. They constantly harassed them and on occasion killed them with brutal tactics and methods. These facts and many others led me to believe that Native Americans were the major cause for Nathaniel Bacon’s Rebellion. The three impacts that Native Americans had on the English settlers were that the high taxes that the Government subjected the people to so they could built better forts; the Indians burned and pillaged 13 out of the 18 colonies; and the Indians killed Bacon’s dear friend that ignited Bacons hatred for the Natives.

During the 1600’s, the Native Americans were killing settlers because they were encroaching on their land
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Kitsune said...

This was interesting for me to read because your thesis is pretty much the opposite of mine. So it was good for me to read to hear another side of the argument. I like that you wrote how the Indians killed Bacon's friend, because I had actually never heard that before. Though, I think it would be good to include a quote from a scholarly article that supports this fact, so that the readers is confident that it truly is fact and not just something you're saying.

Of course, it goes without saying that you have a lot more to write on this. But it looks like a pretty good start.

October 20, 2008 at 12:59 PM

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