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Other

Hsi: Virginia at the Crossroads: Nathaniel Bacon: Hero or Traitor?

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
Primary
University of Groningen

American History: Documents: Bacon's Declaration

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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.
Handout
University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Second Generation of British Colonies

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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...
Lesson Plan
University of California

History Project: Bacon's Rebellion

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will write an essay on the history of Bacon's Rebellion based on the analysis of sixteen primary source documents.
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.
Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Beginnings of Revolutionary Thinking: A Tradition of Rebellion

For Students 5th - 8th
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...
Article
Virginia Historical Society

Virginia Museum of History and Culture: Early Images of Virginia Indians

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of images of early Virginia Indians that includes information on interpreting the images and shows fanciful images that were not historically accurate.
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History Teacher

Historyteacher.net: America and the British Empire (2)

For Students 9th - 10th
Take this 10 question quiz on America and the British Empire.
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Other

Apva: Bacon's Rebellion

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a brief overview of Bacon's Rebellion and the occupation of the house used as the headquarters of those rebelling.