Nathaniel Bacons Revolt turns into a revolution?

I am not well versed on this part of history as I should be, but I want to know what would've happened if Nathaniel Bacons revolt had been intended for a wider revolution in which either the colonies declare independence and be a republic or a dictatorship?
 
If they'd intended independence? They'd fail and there's be more hangings than otl. You can't forget how early in colonization this is. In 1680 there are 5.2 million people in England and 150k in all eleven colonies combined (Georgia and Pennsylvania hadn't been founded yet.) If Bacon doubled the number of men he was able to raise he'd still be outnumbered by the crew of a single British man of war. In our history it was mostly put down by a couple armed merchant ships before the Navy even arrived.

After the revolt the governor and Britain actually gave the rebels most of what they'd asked for so a wider revolt seems likely to cause wider reforms (and additional successful legislative attempts to control the poor), even if it fails.

As a side note, one of the revolt's major complaints was that the government wasn't killing and expelling enough indians so a wider revolt is going to be terrible news for the natives no matter who wins. I find it interesting that this was still a major complaint a century later in the American Revolution.
 
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