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American Life in the 17th Century: 1607-1692
What was American life like during the 1600s? Help your class discover facts about the unhealthy conditions at Chesapeake Bay, the tobacco economy, Bacon's Rebellion, colonial slavery, the Salem Witch Trials, and colonial life. Slides...
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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.
University of Groningen
American History: Documents: Bacon's Rebellion
Find out the causes of Bacon's Rebellion from this full text of Robert Beverley's first-hand account.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Second Generation of British Colonies
The religious and civil conflict in England in the mid-17th century limited immigration, as well as the attention the mother country paid the fledgling American colonies. In part to provide for the defense measures England was...
Digital History
Digital History: Slavery in Colonial America
A very interesting look at slaves and free blacks in colonial America, especially in the South, up to about 1660. See how the concept of slavery and the use of slaves was fluid until that time.
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...
Virginia Historical Society
Virginia Museum of History and Culture: Early Images of Virginia Indians
A collection of images of early Virginia Indians that includes information on interpreting the images and shows fanciful images that were not historically accurate.
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...
History Teacher
Historyteacher.net: America and the British Empire (2)
Take this 10 question quiz on America and the British Empire.
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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.