Wealth in the colonies

  • Jamestown founding

  • Nathaniel Bacon's declaration

    Challanged authority, plundered elite estates, and slaughtered nearby Native Americans because he thought they were holding back settlements.
  • Enrollment act

    allowed people to substitute drafting into the military, and exempted specific people from drafting into the army as well.
  • Fourteenth amendment

    granted citizenship to blacks
  • watergate scandal

    Nixon and illegal bribes from cooporations