Declaration of the People Analyzation

10th when he was acquitted, restored to his seat in the council, and promised a commission as general for the Indian' war. Governor Berkeley in July dismantled the obnoxious forts, dissolved the assembly, and issued writs for a new election. When he failed to carry out his promises, Bacon returned at the head of 500 men and compelled Berkeley to issue the promised commission. In September he again routed the governor's forces and burned Jamestown, while Governor Berkeley was obliged to take refuge on board an English ship. Bacon died before carrying out his plans for attacking the governor at Accomac. Place and Time - What do I know about the Place and Time of this document?Place - Virginia (the New World) Time - July 30th 1676. The place in which this document was issued in was initially known as Jamestown and then became known as Virginia. Prior Knowledge - What knowledge do I know about this subject being addressed?Economic and social power became concentrated in late seventeenth-century Virginia, leaving laborers and servants with restricted economic independence. Governor William Berkeley feared rebellion: “six parts of Seven at least are Poore, Indebted, Discontented and Armed.” Planter Nathaniel Bacon focused inland colonists’ anger at local Indians, who they felt were holding back settlement, and at a distant government unwilling to aid them. In the summer and fall of 1676, Bacon and his supporters rose up and plundered the elite’s estates and slaughtered nearby Indians. Bacon’s Declaration challenged the economic and political privileges of the governor’s circle of favorites, while announcing the principle of the consent of the people. Bacon’s death and the arrival of a British fleet quelled this rebellion, but Virginia’s planters long remembered the spectacle of white and black acting together to challenge authority. Audience - What do I know about the audiences for this document?The intended audience for the Declaration of People were all those who wanted to rebel against the Indians and overthrow them. The unintended audience, instead, didn’t want to partake in the overthrowing of the Indians, because they didn’t want to have any problems with them and create further difficulties. Reason to write/create - What is the reason this document was written?The Declaration of the People of Virginia (or simply Declaration of the People) was a list of complaints issued by Nathaniel Bacon on July 30, 1676, in which he proclaims Virginia's colonial governor, William Berkeley, corrupt and expresses his displeasure at what his followers regarded as unjust taxation and the government's condescending, in his opinion, policy towards some tribes of Native Americans—the presumed grievances which brought about the uprising known as Bacon's rebellion.The main ideas of the primary sourceThe Declaration of the People was a list of complaints issued by Nathaniel Bacon, in which he proclaims Virginia’s colonial governor, William Berkeley, corrupt and expresses his displeasure at what his followers regarded as unjust taxation and the government’s snobbish attitude towards the Native American tribes.   Significance of document to history.Bacon’s “Declaration of People” challenged the economical and political privileges of the governor’s circle of favorites while announcing the principle of the agreement of the people.