C. The colony’s conflict with American Indians contributed to tensions between its own social classes.
Bacon's Rebellion was a rebellion led by Nathaniel Bacon of western farmers against the coastal elite in charge of the colonial government.
Western farmers were requesting aid from the Virginia colonial government in dealing with issues with Indians on the frontier. The government was full of wealthy, government officials who refused to help the farmers on the frontier who had less money and influence than the coastal elite. This rebellion was sparked by trouble with Indians but in the end revealed the problems by the social classes in the colony.
Selma: The Bridge to the Ballot is the story of a courageous group of Alabama students and teachers who, along with other activists, fought a nonviolent battle to win voting rights for African Americans in the South. Standing in their way, a century of Jim Crow, a resistant and segregationist state, and a federal government slow to fully embrace equality. By organizing and marching bravely in the face of intimidation, violence, arrest and even murder, these change-makers achieved one of the most significant victories of the civil rights era.
Smith argued that by giving everyone freedom to produce and exchange goods as they pleased (free trade) and opening the markets up to domestic and foreign competition, people's natural self-interest would promote greater prosperity than with stringent government regulations.
