The United States. As the main cause of this war was the westward expansion of the United States. That American ideal of “Manifest Destiny.” That it was their god given right to expand westward. At the time before the period of the Mexican-American war, people believed they could conquer people already living on the land and take it for the United States.
Bacon wanted to take revenge against the Indians. The tension between them worse due to social and geographical issues. Then Bacon leads an attack that resulted in a bloody war. As a result of the rebellion, the Virginia colony has bee driven out, there were reforms and the beginning of slavery.
People were looking for an escape from their daily lives
