• It exposed the power vacuum in 1670s colonial Virginia in an era rife with social inequalities
• Tensions between disenfranchised settlers and elite planters became obvious during the struggle
• It revealed underlying resentment against elite political rule in the growing Virginia Colony with Governor William Berkeley’s policies at issue
• Native American issues played a role as well due to increased frontier attacks which spurred many poor, landless Virginians and frontiersmen alike, like Nathaniel Bacon himself, to push West and demand protection
• It demonstrated deep Native American anxieties over land encroachment from the settlers with their growing presence and demands on traditional tribes.