单项选择题
| Nathaniel Bacon was a man determined to
protect his property against Indian raids. He encouraged other Piedmont farmers
to do likewise. After Governor Berkeley of Virginia had refused to help them,
Bacon and his friends banded together and destroyed a group of attackers in
April of 1676. Governor Berkeley declared them traitors, and they assembled a
group of some 500 people and marched on Jamestown, the capital, to insist on the
governor’s assistance. Berkeley later ordered them al arrested. Because of this,
the farmers burned Jamestown and took control of the government. The governor
fled. The fight, which was known as Bacon’s Rebellion, lasted almost a year. Bacon contracted malaria and died in October of 1676, leaving the farmers at the mercy of Governor Berkeley. Twenty-three of them were hanged at his request. |