Bacon's Rebellion: the Declaration (1676)

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Bacon's Rebellion: The Declaration (1676)
1. For having, upon specious pretenses of public works, raised great unjust taxes upon the commonalty for the advancement of private favorites and other sinister ends, but no visible effects in any measure adequate; for not having, during this long time of his government, in any measure advanced this hopeful colony either by fortifications, towns, or trade. . . .
2. For having wronged his Majesty's prerogative and interest by assuming monopoly of the beaver trade and for having in it unjust gain betrayed and sold his Majesty's country and the lives of his loyal subjects to the barbarous heathen.
3. For having protected, favored, and emboldened the Indians against his Majesty's loyal subjects, never contriving, requiring, or appointing any due or proper means of satisfaction for their many invasions, robberies, and murders committed upon us.
. . . we accuse Sir William Berkeley as guilty . . . and as one who has traitorously attempted, violated, and injured his Majesty's interest here by a loss of a great part of this his colony and many of his faithful loyal subjects by him betrayed and in a barbarous and shameful manner exposed to the incursions and murder of the heathen.
Nathaniel Bacon
General by Consent of the people.
-After Bacon's Rebellion, how did colonial leaders respond to Bacon's demands?

• A) The king recognized the legitimacy of the demands and removed Governor Berkeley.
• B) Greater economic opportunities were created for former indentured servants.
• C) Parliament acknowledged that settlers in the backcountry needed protection from Indians.
• D) Increasingly, plantation owners used African slaves rather than indentured servants for labor.

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