In the year 1675, the Doeg Indians initiated a raid on a plantation in Virginia which caused the colonists to retaliate. Unfortunately, the colonists attacked the wrong Indians, the Susquehannock of the Chesapeake, which caused a large scale of raids by the Indians. Sir William Berkeley was the English governor of the colony and wanted the situation settled in a diplomatic way. His reasons to seek a compromise between the Indians and the Colonists was so he could continue to benefit from his successful trade relations with the Indians. Sir William Berkeley’s decision to not retaliate and his indisposition to listen to the claims of the laboring people, triggered an uprising, called the Bacon’s Rebellion. Nathaniel Bacon, a member of the Virginia