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- The Declaration of the People of Virginia, or simply the Declaration of the People, was a list of complaints issued by Nathaniel Bacon on July 30, 1676, in which he proclaimed Virginia 's colonial governor, William Berkeley, to be corrupt and expressed his displeasure at what his followers regarded as unjust taxation and the government's failure to provide colonists protection from some tribes of American Indians.
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May 17, 2023 · On July 30, 1676, Nathaniel Bacon issued his grievances against William Berkeley. He called it the Declaration of the People of Virginia.
Planter Nathaniel Bacon focused the anger of inland colonists at local Indians, who they felt were holding back settlement, and at a distant government unwilling to aid them. Declaration of Nathaniel Bacon in the Name of the People of Virginia, July 30, 1676. 1.
Bacon's Declaration in the Name of the People 1676. In Virginia in 1676 Nathaniel Bacon led a rebellion. This is the manifesto of that effort. It expresses many of the reform objectives that would later be further developed and bring about the American Revolution.
Oct 11, 2023 · We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free ...
This source is a textual reproduction of Nathaniel Bacon's Declaration of the People in which he called upon his fellow Virginians to rise up against their governor because of his supposed preferential treatment of Native Americans on the colony's western frontier.
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The Declaration of the People of Virginia, or simply the Declaration of the People, was a list of complaints issued by Nathaniel Bacon on July 30, 1676, in which he proclaimed Virginia 's colonial governor, William Berkeley, to be corrupt and expressed his displeasure at what his followers regarded as unjust taxation and the government's failure...
United States Declaration of Independence. The Declaration of Independence, formally titled The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America (in the engrossed version but also the original printing), is the founding document of the United States.
