Examples of Virginia Plan in the following topics:
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- The Virginia delegation took the initiative to frame the debate by immediately drawing up and presenting a proposal known as the Virginia Plan, James Madison is given chief credit for this proposal.
- The New Jersey plan was created in response to the Virginia Plan, which called for two houses of Congress both elected with apportionment according to population.
- The Virginia Plan proposed a legislative branch consisting of two chambers (bicameral legislature).
- Ultimately, the Virginia Plan was used, but some ideas from the New Jersey Plan were added.
- House of Representatives, apportioned by population as desired by the Virginia Plan, and the Senate, granted equal votes per state as desired by the New Jersey Plan.
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- Delegates from these states supported the Virginia Plan, crafted by James Madison, which included a system of proportional representation in Congress as well as an extension of congressional powers.
- This plan also proposed a bicameral legislature.
- Debate over the Virginia vs.
- The Compromise indicated that each state would be given equal representation (as per the New Jersey Plan) in one house of Congress and proportional representation (as per the Virginia Plan) in the other.
- George Mason of Virginia said he would not support the Constitution unless it included a Bill of Rights.
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- This became known as the Virginia Plan.
- When the rest of the Virginia and Pennsylvania delegation arrived they agreed on Madison's plan, and formed what came to be the predominant coalition.
- By the time the Convention started, the only blueprints that had been assembled were Madison's Virginia Plan, and Charles Pinckney's plan.
- As Pinckney didn't have a coalition behind his plan, Madison's plan was the starting point for deliberations.
- Agreeing on these principles, the Convention voted on the Virginia plan and began modifications.
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- Gabriel's Rebellion was a planned slave revolt in Virginia in 1800 that was quelled before it could begin.
- During the summer of 1800 in Richmond, Virginia, Gabriel Prosser, an enslaved literate blacksmith, planned a revolt that would come to be known as "Gabriel's Rebellion."
- In 1800, nearly 40 percent of the total population of Virginia were slaves, concentrated on plantations in the Tidewater area and west of Richmond.
- In addition to the large numbers of enslaved African Americans, the increasing number of freed slaves in Virginia made the region ripe for rebellion.
- After plans for the rebellion were quelled, many slave holders greatly restricted the slaves' rights of travel.
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- McClellan, recently
having ascended to general chief of all Union armies in addition to remaining
an army commander for the Army of the Potomac, revealed on January 12, 1862, a
plan to transport the Army of the Potomac by ship to Urbanna, Virginia, in order
to outflank Confederate forces near Washington and capture Richmond.
- McClellan rebutted this decision in a 22-page letter
to the president, outlining his Urbanna plan.
- McClellan
altered his plan so that his forces would land at Fort Monroe and move
northwest up the Virginia Peninsula, but Congress and the press were highly
critical of what was perceived as a missed opportunity to catch the Confederates
in their previous positions near Washington.
- In turn, the Union’s morale was crushed following
McClellan’s retreat and what was perceived to be poor strategic planning on the
part of Union army leadership.
- General McClellan launched an invasion of Virginia, intending to take the Confederate capital of Richmond and bring an early end to the Civil War.
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- The early 1800's witnessed attempted large-scale slave rebellions, including those planned by Gabriel Prosser.
- In reaction, Virginia and other state legislatures passed restrictions on free blacks, as well as prohibiting the education, assembly, and hiring out of slaves, to restrict their chances to learn and to plan similar rebellions.
- Gabriel planned the revolt during the spring and summer of 1800.
- He warned Virginia Governor James Monroe, who called out the state militia.
- By that time, Virginia's free blacks numbered 30,466, or 7.2% of the total black population.
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- The Chesapeake Bay area included Maryland, first settled in 1634, and Virginia, with Jamestown established in 1607.
- The first democratically elected government was the Virginia House of Burgesses, which was first convened in 1619.
- By 1750 the population of Virginia had skyrocketed to 450,000 and was almost evenly divided between African and European peoples.
- Homann drew this map in response to Virginia Lieutenant-Governor Alexander Spotswood's plan to settled the little known interior of Virginia with German immigrants.
- In Virginia and Carolina the river systems are surprisingly well mapped and a primitive county structure is beginning to emerge.
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- McClellan into action, he issued orders to replace McClellan in command of the
Army of the Potomac in Virginia.
- Lee at the
Battle of Antietam in Maryland, but had not been able to destroy Lee's army,
nor did he pursue Lee back into Virginia aggressively enough for Lincoln.
- The
Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around
Fredericksburg, Virginia, between General Robert E.
- Lee's Confederate Army of
Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Major General
Ambrose Burnside.
- Burnside's
plan was to cross the Rappahannock River at Fredericksburg in mid-November and
race to the Confederate capital of Richmond before Lee's army could stop him.
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- The Anaconda Plan, or "Scott's Great Snake," was an outline strategy for subduing the seceding states.
- In early March of 1862, the blockade of the James River in Virginia was gravely threatened by the first ironclad, the CSS Virginia (also known as the "Merrimack") in the dramatic Battle of Hampton Roads.
- Richmond was quickly evacuated, resulting in the disintegration of the Army of Northern Virginia.
- An 1861 cartoon map of the blockade, known as Winfield Scott's Anaconda Plan.
- Describe the effects of the Union Blockade and the greater Anaconda Plan of the Atlantic Theater.
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- He was the son of a prominent slaveholder and land speculator in Virginia.
- Starting in 1769, Jefferson served in the Virginia House of Burgesses for six years.
- In 1775, Thomas Jefferson joined the Continental Congress as a delegate from Virginia when he and others in Virginia began to rebel against the British governor Lord Dunmore.
- In 1778, with Jefferson's leadership and probably authorship, the Virginia General Assembly banned importing slaves into Virginia.
- On March 1, 1784, Jefferson submitted to Continental Congress the Report of a Plan of Government for the Western Territory.