Colonial Williamsburg Magazine

In 2007, the Jamestown settlement celebrated its 400th anniversary. The governing body of Virginia, the Virginia General Assembly, held a session there, a parade was held, and even Dick Cheney and Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom attended a ceremony honoring the historic site where English settlers would first find a permanent home in the future United States (Lessig and Payne, 2007). Looking backward, it seemed almost inevitable that the settling of Jamestown was the beginning of the United States as it’s known today.

Our nation's revolution was a great achievement in U.S History. With the dawn of a new nation, there would have to be a central location to make the new decisions of our country. Our capitol has stood as the heart of our country since the late 1700s. The United States capitol is among the most architecturally impressive and symbolically important buildings in the world. For almost two centuries it has housed the meeting chambers of the senate and the House of Representatives. Begun in 1793, the capitol building has been built, burnt, rebuilt, extended, and restored. Today our capitol stands as a monument to the American people and their government. (AOC.gov)

I am ecstatic to know that you are alive and well. It feels like it has been an eternity since you were born 23 years ago in our very own home in England. I still remember the day that I had to leave you, tears swelling up in my eyes, I left when you were only at the age of 8! It killed me to leave you, knowing I would probably never see you or your mother's face ever again. But here we are, communicating by letter from distant colonies in the new world. At least I can sigh of relief knowing that you are in the same country as me. Maybe someday we will be able to see each other. Until then, I do know that you and I have plenty of work to do developing our isolated distant colonies. To this day I still dream of you, me and your own mother meeting

The colony of Virginia was founded by a stock company: the Virginia Company. To attract people Virginia made a wonderful charter. Emigrants who paid their own way to Virginia got fifty acres of land. There would not be mere tenants. Civil authority would control the military. A council of burgesses, representatives chosen by the inhabitants of the colony for their government, would be convened as the House of Burgesses. The governor could veto their actions and the company still had overall control of the venture, but the settlers would have a say in their own government, including the right of the House of Burgesses to introduce money bills. The King’s court appointed a royal governor, someone who had never set foot on the land of

In 1607, English settlers came to America to create a colony and make money. English investors helped pay for settling the James River colony. Although, 70 colonists died in the first six months. The colony known as Jamestown was settled along the Chesapeake Bay. The land inhabited by Native Americans called the Powhatans.

“Where there is no vision, the people perish.” - Proverbs 29:18. So the Colonial Williamsburg Capitol was constructed as a vision and a building for leadership. It was a symbol of control and the most important building in Colonial Williamsburg. Without it, there would not be any system for our society to prosper. But if it can adapt to change, the people would follow. Additionally, it is important during colonial times, valuable to citizens today, and connects to the motto “That the future may learn from the past.” For these reasons, the Capitol should receive a 2016 commemorative coin to honor the exhibit’s importance.

The Roanoke was established in 1585 on Roanoke island which is now Dare County , North Carolina. A group of 115 English settlers arrived on the island in 1587. Later that year John White the governor of the new colony decided he will sail back to England to gather a fresh load of supplies. When he arrived, a major naval war broke loose between Spain and England. In August 1590 , White finally returned to Roanoke, where he had left his family.Virginia Dare , his infant granddaughter was the first english kid born in the Americas. White found no trace of the colony or its inhabitants. He had few clues to what had happened from the single word “Croatoan” which means, carved into a wooden post. Roanoke continued over the centuries. No one has

The Road to Revolution is significant because it displays the hardships that the Colonists had to go through in order to gain their independence and break away from Britain, which is also the only way that they would have gotten their freedom. The Colonists were justified in breaking away from Britain and waging war because they did not have a say in the Parliament, were unfairly taxed, and limited the Colonists freedom. This topic affects me and many other people because due to the calamities that the Colonists have faced, and the rebellious acts that they have done during their time, we today would not have our independence, but rather still be controlled by Britain. From this topic, learned not only the Declaration of Independence but of other documents that were written which also argued for colonial independence. The Common Sense Pamphlet written by Thomas Paine is also an example of a document written which argued for colonial independence. This rebellion and independence matters today because if the Colonists did not rebel and go against the rules of the British, then we would not have had our freedom. The freedom that is known to all Americans

it was finished building in 1812 and soon began to build up its military strength by putting down around 20 cannons and more in storage. It was build to better the Russian economy in the area of fur trading.it also alowed them to claim some of the coastline of Alaska and California.So, there are many things that make it important in history.

Colonial Williamsburg is a massive importance of Virginia, but some of the important buildings are Bruton-Parish Church, Capitol, Governor’s Palace, and Magazine. The holder of ammunition deserves a commemorative coin because of its importance during Colonial times, value today, and its connection with “that the future may learn from the past.”

Colonial Williamsburg was a key city during colonial times because Colonial Williamsburg had a great amount of important places in it. A book entry on January 9, 1716 about the Bruton Parish Church “Ordered that the men sit on the North side of the church, and the women on the left.” The Bruton Parish is the most important place in Williamsburg because it acted as a storehouse and a hospital during the battle of Yorktown and none of the other places has acted as a different place to help in an entirely different way than it normally does so it deserves a commemorative coin minted for it.

Virginia has a high amount of contributions to our history. It held Richmond, which was the capital city in the civil war for the confederacy. Virginia also housed two of our nation’s most important towns: Williamsburg and Jamestown. About 150 years after the colonial era, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation was formed. The Foundation wanted to honor one of four buildings in our history by putting the selected building on a coin. Those four buildings are the Governor’s Palace, the Bruton Parish Church, the Capitol, and the Magazine. That building has to show importance in the past and today. It also has to have relevance to The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. I believe that the Magazine in Williamsburg deserves the coin most.

When someone says Williamsburg, What do you think of ? If you said Busch Gardens or water country USA or shopping centers, then I'm going to expand your mind. This paper includes Why Williamsburg is important, What colonial life was like, Significant characters, and the lessons the colonists learned. Williamsburg is important because it's another colony in the new world. France and Spain couldn’t have the whole continent. Williamsburg is where the foundational concepts such as republic responsible leaderships, a sense of public service, self government, and individual liberty. The colonist began to dream of independence and freedom from the British monarchy.It was the mostpolitial, educational, andcutal place a the the time.

The stark differences between men and women seem to have existed for as long as men and women have existed. In early seventeenth century Virginia, men migrated for the rugged independence of the New World, and women avoided the same path due to the illness, danger, and isolation. A severe gender imbalance quickly emerged. To remedy this issue, women were essentially imported into the colony to marry the excess of single men. This pattern of marital immigration developed in deep contrast to contemporary mail-order marriages. These early mail-order brides had more rights in Jamestown than they ever could have had in their European homes. In “The Mail-Order Brides of Jamestown, Virginia,” Marcia Zug, writing for The Atlantic on August 31 of 2016, challenges the

The memorial was built by Robert A. Kraus to remember our fallen patriots. On the night of March 5, 1770, men and women gathered in the streets for a riot. They were tired of being pushed around by the British. They started hurling things at the British