While the state abolished the African slave trade in 1778, the institution of slavery flourished in Virginia in the early 1800s. Nat Turner, an enslaved preacher, encouraged a slave rebellion that resulted in many deaths and spread fear across the slaveholding South. In 1861, Virginia followed ...
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Distinct Worlds of Early American Colonies By Martin Kelly When he finally made it back to Roanoke, there was no trace of the colony, his wife, his daughter, or his granddaughter. Instead, all he found was the word "Croatoan" carved into a post, which was the name of a small group of...
the French and English began to get involved in the early 17th century. After the English successfully began theJamestown settlementin modern day Virginia, there was a drive to begin settling other areas of North America. The New England colonies were then founded in modern day Massachusetts, Rho...
* In the early 1960s, the city of Memphis, Tennessee was desegregating its public parks—but only gradually in order to prevent interracial violence and riots. In the 1963 case of Watson v. Memphis, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the city must desegregate its parks immediately instea...
Colonial Government The first permanentsettlement, or colony, was Jamestown, in the area we now call Virginia. Plymouth was an early settlement in the area we call Massachusetts. The settlements in the colonies were much smaller than the towns we know today. Both Jamestown and Plymouth were foun...
Jamestown, Virginia, the first British settlement in America, was built with the help of the Powhatan Indians; without which they very well might not have survived the tough winter of 1607-1608. The first Indian reservation in North America was established by the New Jersey Colonial Assembly on...
Indiana’s state seal depicts a tranquil early colonial scene. In the seal, the sun is tucked away behind some hills, glistening on the horizon. In the foreground, there is a woodsman felling a tree, startling a nearby buffalo into flight. ...
Settlers landing on the site of Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in America. AfterChristopher Columbus’ historic voyage in 1492, Spain dominated the race to establish colonies in the Americas, while English efforts, such asthe “lost colony” of Roanoke, met with failure...