Northern Virginia

the year 1700. Aboard the Mayflower during the year 1620 were Separatist; people who withdrew from the Church of England. They were headed for the Virginia area to join the Chesapeake colony when they derailed from their course and landed at Plymouth. The Separatist become the first pilgrims and established their own settlement north of Virginia. Ten years later in 1630,…

Robert E. Lee was born January 19, 1807 in Stratford, Virginia. He passed away October 19, 1870 in Lexington, Virginia. His parents were Anne Hill Carter Lee and Henry Lee the 3rd. Lee also had a sister named Sydney. He was married to Mary Anna Custis Lee and they had 6 children, 3 boys and 3 girls. When Lee was 18 years old he went to West Point Military Academy where he excelled in all subjects. After graduating from West Point he met and married Mary Anna Custis and had 6 children. Although…

Where’re Y’all From?: A Brief History of the Southern United States Dialect Southern American English, more commonly known as the Southern drawl or the Southern accent, is one of the most immediately recognizable of the United States’ many dialects. The dialect can bring many different connotations to mind depending on the preconceptions of the hearer. Those with positive ideas of the South may conjure up images of hard-working, hospitable, family oriented people, whereas others may prejudge…

For at-risk children in the commonwealth of Virginia, early education interventions could result in positive short and long-term outcomes. According to Barnett (2008), “well-designed preschool education programs produce long-term improvements in school success, including higher achievement test scores, lower rates of grade repetition and special education, and higher educational attainment; some preschool programs are also associated with reduced delinquency and crime in childhood and adulthood”…

In general, Reich’s book gives us an insight of the early trading amongst the countries and how they depended on each other countries imports for personal or their people use. Therefore, the ideas of finding new trading partners were always encouraging and the during the Renaissance or rebirth the people started becoming creative in finding a new trade route to reach India and China and a new world than their forbears of the Middle Ages (Reich, 2011, p. 3). Therefore, missionaries and traders…

Settling the Colonies: Discuss the primary motivations for the settling of Massachusetts (New England), Pennsylvania (Middle), and Virginia (Southern) colonies. Land, work, and freedom of religion were all encouraged colonists to settle the New World. As the English Civil War had raged on, religion in England had become extremely unstable, which encouraged many people to travel overseas for sanctuary. Such a colony, Plymouth, in Pennsylvania was founded under the Mayflower compact to tolerate…

Their main ideas consisted of not going from Washington to Richmond and instead that a better way to get to the Confederate’s capital would be through the peninsula of Florida. Doing so would mean either dividing the Union’s forces, or leaving the Northern capital, Washington D.C., vulnerable. Since neither of these options seemed reasonable they resorted to the previous plan of going via Richmond and focus on Robert E. Lee’s army. Lincoln devised a plan that involved catching the Confederate…

p. 5). The Civil War was started when Southern states declared independence by seceding from the Union. South Carolina was the first state to secede in 1860 and they were later joined by Florida, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas, and Tennessee to form the Confederate States of America (as…

and the ship Elizabeth was setting off from the young English colony of Jamestown, bound for London with a load that included four barrels of tobacco, about 4,000 pounds. Few probably knew that those four barrels would change the entire economy of Virginia in less than a decade. More than any other crop or industry, tobacco shaped the development of the south. Southern colonists saw the Native Americans growing tobacco, and the settlers quickly accepted tobacco as their main tool of success.…

The Civil War and its aftermath had great impacts on Native American tribes all across the country. At the start of the war, many tribes had decided to join the Confederacy, mostly because some of their tribe members had owned slaves. Since they were apart of the Confederate States of America, the Confederacy had decided to pay all of the annuities that the Government of the United States had provided. After the Civil War, the tribes that were apart of the Confederacy were severely punished. The…