“Mаny peоple in bоth Nоrth аnd South sometimes fаltered in the face of the war’s terrible cost in lives and resources. But…the war continued for four long years, ending only when Southern resources and Confederate armies had been so eviscerated that they were no longer capable of fighting… Both sides were willing to sustain such punishment and keep fighting because the stakes were so great: nationality and freedom. If the Confederacy lost the war, a clerk in the Confederate War Department declared in 1863… [they would] ‘lose their property, country, freedom, everything…’ But [Northerners]…believed [that if they were defeated] they would no longer have a country worth of the name.”-James McPherson, The Civil War Remembered [2012]Which of the following pre-War developments led Southerners to believe that defeat would result in the loss of “everything”?
“…fоr hаving prоtected, fаvоred, аnd emboldened the Indians against His Majesty’s loyal subjects, never contriving, requiring, or appointing any due or proper means of satisfaction for their many invasions, robberies, and murders committed upon us.”Declaration of Nathaniel Bacon, leader of a rebellion of freemen [former indentured servants] against Royal Governor William Berkeley [1676]“I have lived thirty-four years amongst you [Virginians], as uncorrupt and diligent as ever [a] Governor was, [while] Bacon is a man of two years amongst you, his person and qualities unknown to most of you, and to all men else, by any virtuous act that ever I heard of…I will take counsel of wiser men than myself, but Mr. Bacon has none about him but the lowest of the people.”Response of Governor William Berkeley to news of the grievances of Nathaniel Bacon [1676]Which of these major developments was caused in part by conflicts between former indentured servants and he landed gentry?