Nathaniel Bacon’s Rebellion can be attributed to several causes. Economic problems such as declining tobacco prices, growing commercial competition from Maryland and the Carolinas, an increasingly restricted English market and the rising price of English manufactured goods (mercantilism) caused problems for the Virginians. There were many problems caused by weather; several natural disasters including hailstorms, floods, drought and hurricanes rocked the colony in one year. Virginia had also become a haven for Roundheads and Cavaliers during the English Civil War. Bacon’s Rebellion was partly an echo of the English Civil War. The revolutionary government established by the Baconites had ties to the republican Commonwealth of England.