This is due to many reasons, the most prominent was that Colonialists wanted Representation in Parliament they bitterly complained that they have taxation without representation, and British officers replied that they did, in that every member in Parliament represented the entire nation including the colonists. The colonists rejected that because the know that the members of Parliament will never understand their day to day struggles as they never lived in the colonies before to experience that. Other reasons on why Colonists hated England’s new taxes was because they kept coming at an alarming rate, there were many that affected like the Navigations Act which didn’t allow people to use other ships…show more content… Many of these poor people were just indentured servants who have served their contract and wanted to build a farm for themselves and their families. This highlighted the sharp class difference between wealthy planters and landless landless poor farmers. By the time they completed their contracts, almost all land was taken from the rich, and the areas of land that were still available costed a lot of money that it was unaffordable for the poor to even buy. Some whites tried to risk it by moving into the western frontier where sometime violent outbreaks with the Indians would occur. A governor named William Berkeley prohibited settlements in the western frontier to avoid war with the Indians. His policy angered the poor colonists, one such individual named Nathaniel Bacon. An impoverished farmer that led a rebellion against Berkeley’s government, which then lead to an attack on Jamestown, Bacon’s army succeeded in defeating the governor’s forces and even burned the Jamestown settlement. Bacon also raised an army of volunteers as well 2,000 African American soldiers which was a serious to slavery in the South, and in 1676, Bacon conducted a series of raids and massacres against the Indian villages on the Virginia frontier. All of this was an effort to gain land so that the poor can finally have their own
