Colonial Williamsburg

SETTING The setting was based in Colonial Virginia (George Washington and John Parke Custis are the only two people in the story that are from Colonial Virginia). Most Americans talked with a british accent during the revolutionary war. Mainly because a lot of the Americans came from Britain. GEORGE WASHINGTON George Washington did not wear a wig. Even though wigs were fashionable, Washington kept his own hair, which he wore long and tied back in a queue, or ponytail. Washington did,…

The thirteen colonies, which included: Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Virginia, formed Colonial America. The colonies were under the control of Great Britain but they started to rebel around 1754, causing their relationship to strain. From 1754 to 1783 the colonies started to unite, which was caused by The French and Indian War, The Road to the Revolution, and the The…

studied law on his own. In 1760, he appeared in Williamsburg to take his attorney's examination before Robert Carter Nicholas, Edmund Pendleton, John and Peyton Randolph, and George Wythe, and from that day forward, Patrick Henry's story is inseparable from the stream of Virginia history. Powerful words resonated In 1763,…

to review "Things Fearful to Name": Bestiality in Colonial America by John M. Murrin. Bestiality was a person who had the sex relationship with animals. When the bestiality occurred, people decided to make prosecution by using the law. In the society, laws could help people to prevent the wrong thing occurred and warned all people to act correctly. From this article, I understood people's attitude on the bestiality and sodomy during the colonial period. In the article, the author used lots of…

chief of the continental army. He began his career in the Virginia Militia. George Washington played an vital role in the American revolution. During the American Revolution, he led the colonial forces to a win over the British and became an American hero. Over the course of the gruesome eight-year war, the colonial forces won very few battles but consistently held their own against the British. In October 1781, with the aid of the French, the Continental forces were able to capture British…

time these women got their benefits in 1979, less than 20 of them were still alive. During the last two years of war, nursing became an official role in the military (The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation). Nearly 33,000 served as either nurses or support staff and 400 of them died in the line of duty (The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation). As previously mentioned, the Army Nurse Corps was established in 1901 allowing only women to be involved as nurses (Kuhn). Because of this, the Army Nurse…

Resources." Library of Congress. (April 1877). “The Holy Bible, King James Version”. Cambridge Edition: 1769; King James Bible Online, (2017) Theobald, Mary. "The Monstrous Absurdity." The Monstrous Absurdity - The Gunpowder Theft Examined : The Colonial Williamsburg Official History & Citizenship Site. (June 2006) West, Samuel “On the Right to Rebel against Governors” The History Carper. (May 29,…

against. Quite the contrary, the perceived threat of piracy, and the vengeance of those wronged by them was a consistent narrative in contemporary stories. It is simply intended to demonstrate that historians have largely exaggerated the role of the colonial courts as an instrument of death. It should also be apparent that the trials amassed for this study represent the majority of trials occurring in the colonies…

The Inhumane Use of African Americans During the Colonial Era In the early 1600’s the inhumane transporting and enslaving of African Americans in the American colonies began. Although the English settlers required agricultural labor during the Colonial Era, their use of the African American slaves was unjust. The English did not provide sufficient housing, clothing, or nutrition for the African American slaves, nor did the settlers have any regards for their families. The English also overworked…

Antiques have a unique place in American society even today. Going even further, they arguably have a different meaning today than they did in the past. Briann G. Greenfield offers an effective evolution of antiques from the early 1900’s onward. She charts the advances in collecting, selling, acquiring and even displaying of antiques. Greenfield even offers several case studies of collectors and dealers within the five chapters of Out of the Attic: Inventing Antiques in the Twentieth-Century…