"Let us trace these men in authority and favour to whose hands the dispensation of the country's wealth has been committed... Let us see what sponges have sucked up the public treasure, and how it hath been privately contrived away by unworthy favourites... and whether the Indians be not better treated by us than the King's loyal subjects." — Nathaniel Bacon, "Declaration of the People of Virginia," 1676
The aftermath of the conflict described here most directly contributed to which longer-term development in the Chesapeake?
- A
The creation of a unified Dominion of New England under Edmund Andros
- B
The replacement of tobacco with rice as the dominant cash crop
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A planter-driven shift from European indentured servitude toward enslaved African labor
- D
The conversion of Virginia into a Quaker proprietary colony
Explanation
The instability revealed by Bacon's Rebellion accelerated planters' move toward racialized chattel slavery, which they viewed as more controllable than disgruntled freed servants. Rice dominated South Carolina, not the Chesapeake; Virginia never became Quaker; and the Dominion of New England covered northern colonies only.