The American Revolution in 1776 was not the first time that the British colonists confronted uprising in the “new world.” In 1675, colonists in New England struggled over land in King Philip's War. Almost simultaneously, colonists in Virginia faced an even more complicated uprising. Nathaniel Bacon’s rebellion was a struggle between immigrants, wealthy land owners, and Native Americans for control over sections of land in the Virginia Colony. Low tobacco prices and high land prices made the dream of obtaining plantations in the Chesapeake next to impossible. Did Native Americans hold too much land in the treaty of 1646? Many immigrants felt they did and headrights could not provide them with their desired land. Each of these groups of people had conflicts and distrust between themselves. The class system played an important role within this event. Twenty-nine year old Nathaniel Bacon became the leader for the landless immigrants even though he himself came from a different class. In this case, you will hear “eyewitness” testimony and come to your own conclusions about Bacon. Was Nathaniel Bacon a colonial “Robin Hood” and someone to admire or was he a scoundrel and traitor?