Transcript Christopher Columbus - BRISTOL VA PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Christopher Columbus
•Columbus spent some of his early years at
his fathers trade.
•He weaved and later became a sailor on the
Mediterranean ship.
•He stole from the rich and gave to the poor.
•He sailed on the Mayflower ship to go to
England.
•Back then Christopher Columbus had to
where white wigs.
George Mason
•He was a auther in 1725 –1792.
•Thomas Jefferson called him the
wisest man.
•He was the driving forces of the
bill of rights
• he was the auther of the 1776
Virginia decletive of rights.
•James Madison praised Mason as
a powerful resener.
James Madison
•James Madison was born in 1751.
•Madison was brought up in Orange County, Virginia and attended
Princeton.
•Virginia Constitution in 1776, severed in the Continental Congress.
•Napoleon pretended to comply.
•Late in 1810, Madison proclaimed non-intercourse with Great Britain.
•Dolly Madison was James Madison’s wife.
James Monroe
•Born in Westmoreland country
•He joined the anti federalist
•He was are fifth president
•Monroe under took a goodwill tour
at Boston
•Monroe accepted Adam’s advice
John Brown
•On March 23,1775 he give his speech “Give me
liberty or give me death”.
•December 2,1859 was hanged.
•June 21,1820 John Brown marries Dianthe Lusk.
•May 1800 John Brown was born in Torrington,
Connecticut.
•Then John Brown was in the Holy War.
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Appomattox Court House
•Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses
S. Grant at Appomattox Court House.
•There are 27 original 19th century
structures on the site.
•The site also has the home and burial
place of Joel Sweeney.
•The National Park encompasses
about 1,800 acres of rolling hills.
• The site includes the McLean home.
Robert E. Lee
•Born in January 19 1807.
• Died in1870.
•He had a sister
• His brother was light horse Harry Lee
•Lt. Lee was his father
•General lee was not an adviser.
•Lee was made a general in CSA
•Mr. Davis excepted them.
•He had a army.
•He was important.
Stonewall Jackson
•Born Jan. 21st 1824
•Died May 10th 1863
•In 1863 he joined the army.
•His nickname was Stonewall.
•Confederate general in Civil War.
BACON’S REBELLION
•One of the most intriguing things
but confusing chapters of
Jamestown.
•Went against the governors
orders.
•He became a burgesses .
•He was arrested when he went to
his seat.
•He became general of some
Indians.
Battle of Manassas
• On a warm July day in 1861 two great armies
of a divided nation clashed for the first time on
the fields overlooking Bull Run
•These troops were 90 day volunteers
summoned by Abraham Lincoln after the
startling news of Fort Sumter
•Manassas National Battle Field Park was
established in 1940 to preserve the scene of two
major Civil war battles
James Armistead
•James was a slave
•He was general at Yorktown
•He says that spies come from the
most unlikely places
•He changed his name
•He was hired as a spy
Nat Turner
•He was born on October 2
•He led one of the first important
slave revolts
•His revolt helped to bring about the
Civil war
•In his 20s Nat escaped slavery and
returned one month later to free his
people
•6 days after his trial he was hung in
Jamestown Virginia November 11
1831
Abraham Lincoln
•November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln is elected
16th U.S. president.
•December 20, 1860 South Carolina secedes
from the union.
•May 18,1860 Nominated to be the Republican
candidate for president of the U.S.
•February 11, 1861 Lincoln gives a brief farewell
to friends and supporters at Springfield and
leaves by train for Washington.
•March 4, 1861 Inauguration ceremonies in
Washington.President Lincoln delivers his first
Inaugural Address.
Jim Crow Laws
•He wrote newspaper articles.
•Jim Crow Laws had a museum.
•1880s-1960s a majority of American states
enforced through “Jim Crow” Laws (so
called after a black character in minstrel
shows).
•Laws that enforced racial segregation in
the V.S. south between 1877s and 1950’s
•Southern legislation passed laws requiring
segregation of whites and “persons of
color“, on public transportation.
Arthur Ashe
•Born July 10,1993
•Died February 6,1993
•Marred Jeanne Marie
•Born in New York
•Won a N C A A championship
Lawrence Douglas Wilder
•Laurence Douglas Wilder (1931) was
the first African American in the united
states to be elected governor of a state.
•In 1985 Laurence Douglas Wilder was
elected lieutenant governor.
•Four years later he became elected
governor of Virginia.
•Wilder was the first black member of the
Senate of Virginia in the twentieth century.
•For a brief time in 1991 Wilder was
candidate for the Democratic Nomination
for president of the United States.