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Website
University of Groningen

American History: Documents: Bacon's Rebellion

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out the causes of Bacon's Rebellion from this full text of Robert Beverley's first-hand account.
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Bacon's Rebellion

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia provides an entry about Bacon's Rebellion, an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony led by Nathaniel Bacon. It was the first rebellion in the American colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part. A similar uprising...
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Lesson Plan
University of California

History Project: Bacon's Rebellion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars will write an essay on the history of Bacon's Rebellion based on the analysis of sixteen primary source documents.
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Article
PBS

Africans in America: Bacon's Rebellion

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides an overall view of the causes and effects of Bacon's Rebellion, the 1676 Virginia uprising which left Jamestown in flames.
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Primary
University of Maryland

Early Americas Digital Archive: Discourse and View of Virginia

For Students 9th - 10th
The complete text of Sir William Berkeley's essay "A Discourse and View of Virginia" written in 1914.