Deepen student analysis of colonial instability with this APUSH-aligned DBQ built around a 19th-century interpretation of Bacon’s Rebellion (1676) by Samuel Kercheval. Writing more than 150 years after the event, Kercheval describes frontier violence, Governor Berkeley’s authority, and Nathaniel Bacon’s defiance—offering a perspective shaped by later historical memory. Students evaluate how frontier–Native conflict, colonial political authority, and social class tensions fueled rebellion in Vir