Failure to protect small landowners from Indian attack
Failure to protect small landowners from Indian attacks.
Bacon?s Rebellion in 1675-76 was the first internal insurrection in America. Led by Virginian Nathaniel Bacon, the rebellion was an uprising against Virginia?s colonial government for its failure to protect small landowners from Indian attack. A century later, Daniel Shays led a group of debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers seeking to stop foreclosures and have more paper money printed. The 1794 Whiskey Rebellion was a protest by western Pennsylvania farmers against a tax on liquor.
