They say: Bacons rebellion2

In the ongoing debate of Bacon’s Rebellion, one controversial issue has been whether or not the rebellion was warranted or not. On the one hand Bacon and the colonists associated to the rebellion thought that they were doing the right thing because Bacon “claimed that by organizing the unauthorized campaign against the encroaching Indians he was providing a release for the colonists’ frustration.” (Pg77 whether they be friends or foes) Not only would the colonists’ have something to let loose their contempt upon but also they thought it healthy to do so. But what really made the colonists’ mad was the fact that Governor Berkeley “made the people jealous that the Governor [was] for the lucre [money/cash] of the beaver trade, ect., with the Indians, [he] rather sought to protect the Indians than them [colonists’].”(Pg77 whether they be friends or foes) Berkeley had a beaver trade monopoly and was making a large profit off of his cash crop and didn’t want Bacon disturbing it. One of the main things Bacon accomplished was “Blending the hatred for Indians with the common peoples anger toward the rich” (pg38 who were the colonists’) in the paper called “Decoration of the people.”On the other hand, the rebellion is thought of as fair and almost necessary. As said in "A Young Peoples History of the United States" by Howard Zinn, “By the 1670’s rich landowners controlled most of Virginia. As a result, many ordinary people felt that they were pushed toward the frontier. Life was more dangerous there. The settlers had problems with the native Americans… the frontiersmen felt that the colonial government had let them down, they were angry, and they weren’t the only ones.” The common people were being pushed into the wilderness to try to scratch a living and fight off the Indians. In the “Document # 5” it states that the Indians when they attacked encroaching settlers they would capture them and “before they would deprive them [settlers] of their lives, they would take great deal of time to deprive them first their skins… with there teeth, tear the nails of [there fingers and their] toes.” Obviously the settlers had a right to fight back right? “The Government was not doing anything because they were corrupt and didn’t care about the settlers and only cared about the money they were making off the Indians, even though the "Susquehannahs killed 60% of the frontiersmen." The people looked for an answer and Bacon rose to the pulpit to preach his revolution of the Virginian government.