Curated OER
The Settlement of the Chesapeake
Focusing on the Virginia and Maryland settlements in the 1600's, this presentation is a complete and thorough resource during a unit on Colonial America. It includes pictures, maps, and interesting discussion points for you to address...
Curated OER
Social Studies: Towne Planning in Tidewater
Young scholars discover how European values dominated colonial life. They also examine the effects of slavery in the Americas. Students compare the planning of their home town with that of colonial Williamsburg. They locate key sites...
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Hsi: Virginia at the Crossroads: Nathaniel Bacon: Hero or Traitor?
Activity in which students investigate the rebellious acts of Nathaniel Bacon against the royal Governor of Virginia, 1676 and decide whether he was a traitor or a hero.
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United States History: Ch. 3 Sec. 1: The Southern Colonies [Pdf]
A chapter from a history text that looks at the development of the Southern Colonies. It discusses the Southern agricultural economy that relied on slave labor, tobacco as a cash crop, Southern society, indentured servitude, Bacon's...
University of Groningen
American History: Documents: Bacon's Declaration
This site provides the full text of Bacon's Declaration of the People, submitted to Sir William Berkeley, July 30, 1676. This declaration states the settlers' anger towards taxes and Indian attacks.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Bacon's Rebellion
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...
University of California
History Project: Bacon's Rebellion
Young scholars will write an essay on the history of Bacon's Rebellion based on the analysis of sixteen primary source documents.
PBS
Africans in America: Bacon's Rebellion
This site provides an overall view of the causes and effects of Bacon's Rebellion, the 1676 Virginia uprising which left Jamestown in flames.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Beginnings of Revolutionary Thinking: A Tradition of Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was just the beginning of large-scale rebellions carried out by colonists when they felt they received no help from the colonial courts. Read about the men in colonies throughout America who protested the courts' favors...
Digital History
Digital History: Slavery Takes Root in Colonial Virginia
Read about how the decrease in the availability of indentured servants led to a vast increase in the importation of African slaves into the southern colonies. Bacon's Rebellion even had an effect on the replacement of indentured servants...
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Apva: Bacon's Rebellion
This site provides a brief overview of Bacon's Rebellion and the occupation of the house used as the headquarters of those rebelling.