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    3. The English Colonies a. The focus this week will shift to the establishment of the thirteen British colonies along the Eastern seaboard of the Modern USA. The week’s unit will look at the social, political, and economic differences which led to varying forms of British colonization in the thirteen colonies. b. The scope of this week will range from the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to the founding of Georgia in 1733. - Annotation: The influence for this week’s class will be Jamestown, the Truth

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    The speech “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” was given by Patrick Henry in 1775 at the Second Virginia Convention, when the stirrings of the American Revolution were beginning to arise. At the time, his opponents thought mostly to continue to appeal and petition to the British Crown for their entreaties, however, Henry was a proponent of raising a militia to revolt against the British due to its multiple offenses towards the colonists and delivered this speech as an argument to do so. The speech

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    Shelton in 1754. He also studied to be a lawyer. In 1757 he and his wife lost their farm house to a fire. Patrick Henry is an American Revolution hero who played an important role during the Revolutionary War because he was a big leader. He was a Virginia lawyer and a politician. He was an outspoken opponent in the stamp act and in the Townshend act by authority of England. Patrick was an amazing public speaker and a big figure of the American Revolution, he was best known for his words “Give me

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    or a famous ruler. To be more specific, the Bacon’s Rebellion was one of the most famous uprisings in the 1670s and the outcome was being defeated. Nathaniel Bacon, who was a Virginia settler, instigated the issue and wanted to start a rivalry towards the Native Americans. William Berkeley, who was the Governor of the Virginia Colony, was very easy-going about the situation and wanted no tension towards the Native Americans. Bacon believed that the Native Americans was invading Jamestown’s territory

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    Fawn M. Brodie, in the biography, Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History (1998), provides an in depth picture of the distressing private life and complex personality of Thomas Jefferson. When he was boy, he lived on a plantation in Virginia, where his father’s slaves raised him and became his alternative family. For Jefferson’s education, his father sent him to boarding school, where young Jefferson felt incongruous with a classroom filled with white children and missed dearly his slave friends.

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    OVERVIEW Science Pub RVA, a program of Science Matters, offers scientific programming to curious minds through in-person events. Over five seasons, Science Pub RVA events typically attract a mix of repeat and first time attendees. As part of its mission to broaden the Richmond Citizenry that is informed by science, Science Pub RVA would like to optimize its website to encourage first-time visitors to either sign up for email list or register for an event Areas of focus will include: • Identifying

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    The first explorer to find Maryland was John Cabot in 1498. In 1608, John Smith entered the Chesapeake bay and explored the area. However, it wasn’t until 1634 when Europeans started settling in huge numbers. Maryland was founded by George Calvert who was the 1st baron Baltimore. Despite raising vegetables and grains and fruits, tobacco was easily the main money making crop to export to the Europeans. However, we have economic problems with the British which is one of the main reasons we want independence

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    In this document, John Smith describes the abandonment of their colony in Virginia during a long period of not having food. Smith took his men and sailed back to England, where he described, in third person, what is was like before they left. “The day before Captain Smith returned for England with the ships, Captain Davis arrived in a small Pinace with some sixteene proper men more” (Smith, 27). Captain Smith had previously thought that they would rely on the Patawomeke tribe to trade with them

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    Man on the Street Reporting: The Debate Over the Confederate Flag After a 15-hour legislative debate, South Carolina voted to remove the Confederate flag from Statehouse. Millions watched as the flag came down on Friday, marking a milestone in how America commemorates the war that tore the nation apart. The battle flag was traditionally used to protest the civil rights movement in the 1960s and is thought to be a symbol of racial subjugation. After the Charleston shooting last month, even many long

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    The Virginia colony was founded in the year of 1607 by John Smith, in the Southern region. People moved there because they wanted to keep their families together on plantations, but the greatest motivation to move there was to make money that was available in the New America market. The Virginia colony since it was in the south they had the warmest climate out of New England, and Middle regions. The warm climate can be a positive factor in a way that people don’t have to worry about surviving

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