James City County, Virginia

implementing the Common Core System, while Republicans tend to favor more conservative changes such as longer hours and more focused programs to better educational resources. In Virginia, Republicans from 1990 to 2013 worked to provide better educational funding more prominently than Democrats. Starting in the 1990s, the Virginia education system experienced a decrease in

Punishment of Certain Crimes against the United States (Sedition Act) Elliot's Debates contains a section on the response to the Alien and Sedition Acts, including the text of the Virginia Resolution, responses to the Virginia Resolution from other states, the Kentucky Resolution, and James Madison's report on the Virginia Resolution. Search this collection on the words "alien sedition" for additional Congressional information on the Alien and Sedition Acts, including debate in the Annals of Congress

John Tyler was a President born on March 29, 1790. He was born in Charles City County, Virginia. Like his father, Tyler was a governor in Virginia. Representing the Whig Party, James Knox Polk was a very important president who was born in North Carolina in 1795 and went on to become the 11th and youngest president in the United States. Polk was the last strong president before Lincoln. John Tyler and James K Polk became two of the most important presidents in America History. John Tyler spent a

revolts were: Gabriel Prosser (1776 – October 10, 1800), was a literate enslaved blacksmith who masterminded a slave rebellion in the Richmond, Virginia area in the summer of 1800. The plans of the rebellion are said to have been told to some white men before it could be carried out. Gabriel and twenty-five followers were captured and. The reaction of Virginia and other state legislatures was to pass laws restricting the movement and all aspects of life of free blacks; this included prohibiting the

In order to best describe the cultural landscape of Stafford County and Fredericksburg city, one must analyze the historical conditions that shaped the modern landscape, which will provide insight into present-day demographics as well as future projections. Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, settlements in Virginia rapidly spread westward from the Tidewater Region. Navigable rivers provided the means of movement, as settlers sailed into the Piedmont. While large plantations were

was born on December 11, 1725 to gorge and Ann Thomson mason at the end mason family plantation in Fairfax County, Virginia. His religion is Anglican, Episcopalian, when mason was 10, his father drowned in the Potomac when the boat he was in capsized. After his father death, mason lived wit his uncle john mercer, who became his legal guardian (along with his mother). Mercer was a leading Virginia attorney. Mason studied in mercer’s private library, which consisted of between 1,500and 1,800 volumes.

with the children of slaves, due to the distance that was between the surrounding plantations in his neighborhood. William Henry Harrison was born into the Prominent Political Harrison Family in 1773. The Harrison’s were one of the First Families of Virginia, and

zone 2 in St. Mary’s county, St. Mary’s city, a Dentalium attenuatum fossil, measuring 26 mm by 3mm, is one of many species in the Dentalium Genus. It is a rather narrow tan colored shell; has several long horizontal strikes running down its body, and openings on both ends. One opening is wider than the other, measuring 1mm vs 3mm, giving it a cone shape but with a slight arc. The fossil was located more specifically in Surry county, Virginia, at a “section of right bank of James River just above Sunken

arsenal at Fayetteville, and the United States mint at Charlotte until the state could hold a convention to decide on the secession question. (28th)7 The Secession Convention convened on May 20, 1861 which consisted of 120 elected delegates from each county. The same day, they voted to secede from the Union, thus joining the Confederate States in the war for Southern Independence. The Unionist sentiment within the state had truly changed and with it, her hopes for peace! North Carolina was now at war

enough supplies. John White was sent back to England for supplies. When he returned to Roanoke Island in 1590 everyone was gone. Jamestown- In December of 1606 three ships were sent on a journey to Virginia to start founding a new settlement in North America. They named it Jamestown for their king James I. The settlement fort was pretty much complete on June 15. The settlement experienced drought, war, disease, and much more. Geography and Environment: