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Alan TaylorAmerican Colonies: The Settling of North America
Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2001A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more.
Key Figures
Alan Taylor
The author of American Colonies. Taylor is an American historian who specializes in colonial North America, the American Revolution and early republic, pre-Confederation Canada, and the American West. He has won several awards and accolades for his work, including two Pulitzer prizes.
Nathaniel Bacon
A young and charismatic member of the gentry in the colony of Virginia. Bacon led the rebellion named after him in 1676-77 against Governor William Berkeley in a bid to change Virginia’s Indian-Frontier policy and gain power for himself.
William Berkeley
Governor of the colony of Virginia from 1642-52. Berkeley allied himself with the wealthy planters and levied heavy taxes on the colonists. He opposed the genocide of the local Algonquian Indians because they were valuable trading partners.
