February 5‚ 1775: Amazing news. I can’t believe my great fortune. Coming home from church service today‚ father told me that our neighbor‚ Richard Henry Lee‚ has asked me to accompany him on his trip to Richmond to serve as his aide during the Second Virginia Convention. This is such a great honor for me‚ a young man of 16. I knew that Mr. Lee‚ one of our colony’s most influential men‚ and father were great friends; but‚ for me to be offered
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1. What percentage of the population did slaves comprise in New York City by the early 1740s? a. 20 percent Slaves comprised one-fifth or 20 percent of the total population of New York City‚ making it a city with one of the highest concentration of slaves in colonial America. (See the introductory section.) 2. Which statement describes African American slaves’ views on the American Revolution? A. They viewed it as an opportunity to gain their own freedom. As the battle for political independence
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several sources‚ partly from “Revolutionary ideals‚ partly from a new evangelical religious commitment that stressed the equality of all Christians‚ and partly from a decline in the profitability of tobacco in the most significant slave region of Virginia and adjoining states” (Retrieved November 20‚ 2014‚ from http://www.ushistory.org/us/13d.asp). Likewise‚ the decline of slavery in the period was most
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cold climate and thin rocky soil. Both were the first permanent settlements in North America and constitute a principal heritage of our culture today. Jamestown and Plymouth The first permanent English settlement in the New Word was Jamestown‚ Virginia; where 104 men landed in 1607. More than a decade later 102 settlers aboard the Mayflower landed in Massachusetts a place they named Plymouth. These two colonies represent the beginning of the English settlement in North
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In this essay I will be talking about the similarities‚ what Jamestown and plymouth have in common and the differences between Jamestown and Plymouth. Jamestown was a small town in virginia and was one of the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. Plymouth was first settled in the 1620’s by a group of 100 puritan separatist pilgrims. In 1619‚ the first representative legislative assembly in the New World met at the Jamestown church. It was here that our American heritage of representative
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there by George Calvert and his fellow followers sailed on a boat to set foot on the fertile land of Maryland. The 13 colonies were “Delaware‚ Pennsylvania‚ New Jersey‚ Georgia‚ Connecticut‚ Massachusetts Bay‚ Maryland‚ South Carolina‚ New Hampshire‚ Virginia‚ New York‚ North Carolina‚ and Rhode Island and Providence Plantations”. I going to explain one of the 13 colonies‚ Maryland and how interaction with Native Americans and their daily life‚ what happen to Maryland
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The following selections are from the ratification debates in Virginia during June 1788. Jonathan Elliott‚ 3 Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Federal Constitution as Recommended by the Convention at Philadelphia in 1787 (2d rev. 137 1891) George Mason (June 1788‚ 32) “There is one thing in it which I conceive to be extremely dangerous. Gentlemen may talk of public virtue and confidence; we shall be told that the House of Representatives will consist of the most virtuous men on
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compromises. There are however many differences as to the extent and what type of concessions these gentlemen were willing to make. The Second Virginia Convention met March 20‚ 1775 inland at Richmond--in what is now called St. John’s Church. This is where Delegate Patrick Henry presented resolutions to raise a militia‚ and to furthermore put Virginia in a posture of defense. Henry Basically says in his speech that the colonists have tried to compromise already and it has had no effect. “Sir‚ we
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History Journal 1 Entry 1 Indentured and Headright Between 1660 and 1710 Virginia’s population of white settlers doubled. The Headright system was put into place to entice settlers to the new lands. This allowed 50 acres of land for each person arriving to the New World‚ in turn starting the indentured servant system. Employers would pay for passage to America‚ and a contracted period of work would be established to pay back the debt. When complete individuals would be free. The paying party would
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