Coming to America

Revolution

Civil War

Reconstruction

Virginia in the 20th Century

100

Eastern Woodland Indians

 

 

Thomas Jefferson

 

The first Battle of Bull Run (or Manassas)

They began to have power in Virginias government and men of all races could vote.

Douglass Wilder

200

1607, On a narrow peninsula surrounded by the James River on three sides.

James Armistead Lafayette

Nat Turner

Unfair poll taxes and voting tests

Af-Am were forced to use sep. drinking fountains

Black and white attended different schools.

The General Assembly,

The Senate and the House of Delegates

300

Gave the Va company the right to establish a settlement in North America, and extended English rights to the colonists

Patrick Henry gave his famous Give me liberty or give me death speech

The north wanted the new states to be free states, the south wanted slave states

Sharecropping and the establishment of the Freedmans Bureau

Harry F. Byrd

400

1640s

The Boston Tea Party

Water The iron clad ships Merrimack and Monitor

A government agency that provided food, schools and medical care for freed slaves and others in Va and the south.

Tobacco, Poultry, Coal, Large Ships

500

Contaminated water

Disease

Jamestowns wooden buildings burned

Williamsburg was at a higher elevation.

Cornwallis, Washington, Yorktown

Union Ulysses S. Grant

Confed. Robert E. Lee

Roanoke, Richmond,

Norfolk, Newport News, Alexandria, Petersburg, and Lynchburg

Harry F. Byrd, schools were closed to avoid integrating them.

 

Final Question: Statues J.E.B. Stuart, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Arthur Ashe, Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson, Mathew Maurey

                        Hon. Citizens Margaret Thatcher, _____ Rockafeller,  the Marquis de Lafayette