The link below will take you to Nathaniel Bacon’s Declaration against the government of Virginia (1676).
Bacon’s Rebellion: The Declaration (1676)
Answer the following questions:
1.What major long-lasting issues does this show about colonial Virginia?
2.Pick which one of Bacon’s list of grievances against Berkeley you find to be the strongest. Explain why you chose this?
3.After now reading the primary sources on both Bacon and Winthrop, what might these sources say about the people and leadership of these two regions? How does this perhaps give insight into how the New England and Chesapeake regions develop so differently?
4.If you lived in England in the 17c and decided that you wanted to emigrate to the New World, which colony would you have chosen, Virginia or Massachusetts Bay? Why?