The Virginia Secession Convention of 1861 was called in the state capital of Richmond to determine whether Virginia would secede from the United States... 43 KB (3,042 words) - 04:09, 8 February 2024 |
House of Burgesses (redirect from Virginia House of Burgesses) reassembled on their own and issued calls for the first of five Virginia Conventions. These conventions were essentially meetings of the House of Burgesses without... 31 KB (3,467 words) - 16:44, 10 April 2024 |
Peyton Randolph (category Beverley family of Virginia) by the Virginia Conventions and later the House of Delegates in 1776). Randolph also served as the president of the Third Virginia Convention in July... 16 KB (1,453 words) - 17:31, 27 April 2024 |
following Conventions in other historical eras: Virginia Ratifying Convention, convention to reject or ratify the United States Constitution Virginia Constitutional... 1 KB (196 words) - 14:01, 15 March 2018 |
of Virginia became a prominent part of the Confederacy when it joined during the American Civil War. As a Southern slave-holding state, Virginia held... 62 KB (7,340 words) - 18:53, 14 March 2024 |
Patrick Henry (category Delegates to the Virginia Ratifying Convention) American politician, planter and orator who declared to the Second Virginia Convention (1775): "Give me liberty, or give me death!" A Founding Father, he... 100 KB (13,806 words) - 04:32, 22 April 2024 |