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Virginia is one of the original 13 states of the United States that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution and is generally classified as part of the South. Its official name is the Commonwealth of Virginia; it is one of four Commonwealths out of the fifty United States.
Kentucky and West Virginia were part of Virginia at the time of the founding of the United States, but the former was admitted to the Union as a separate state in 1792 while the latter broke away from Virginia during the American Civil War.Virginia is known as the "Mother of Presidents", as more U.S. Presidents (8) were born in this state than in any other. Five of them were re-elected to a second term: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, and Woodrow Wilson. William Henry HarrisonWilliam Henry Harrison sometimes nicknamed Tippecanoe or Old Tippecanoe ( February 9, 1773 April 4, 1841) was the ninth ( 1841) President of the United States. A Western statesman of Ohio and general on the frontier, Harrison was born at the family estate, John TylerJohn Tyler Order 10th President Term of Office April 6, 1841 March 3, 1845 Followed William Henry Harrison Succeeded by James Knox Polk Date of Birth March 29, 1790 Place of Birth Greenway, Virginia Date of Death January 18, 1862 Place of Death Richmond,, and Zachary TaylorThis article is about the military leader and politician. For the Power Ranger character, see Zachary Taylor (Power Rangers character). Zachary Taylor Order 12th President Term of Office March 5, 1849—July 9, 1850 Followed James Knox Polk Succeeded by Mil round out the list of American Presidents from the Commonwealth of Virginia. (Historical footnote: both HarrisonWilliam Henry Harrison sometimes nicknamed Tippecanoe or Old Tippecanoe ( February 9, 1773 April 4, 1841) was the ninth ( 1841) President of the United States. A Western statesman of Ohio and general on the frontier, Harrison was born at the family estate and TaylorThis article is about the military leader and politician. For the Power Ranger character, see Zachary Taylor (Power Rangers character). Zachary Taylor Order 12th President Term of Office March 5, 1849—July 9, 1850 Followed James Knox Polk Succeeded by Mil died while in office.)
Among Native AmericanNative Americans (also Indians Aboriginal Peoples American Indians First Nations Alaskan Natives or Indigenous Peoples of America are the indigenous inhabitants of Americas prior to the European colonization, and their modern descendants. This term compri people living in what now is Virginia were the PowhatanThe Powhatan (also spelled Powatan and Powhaten were a very powerful tribe of Native Americans, speaking an Algonquian language, who lived in what is now Virginia at the time of the first European-Native encounters. Powhatan was originally the name of the, Nottaway , Meherrin , Monacan , Saponi , and CherokeeAlternate meanings: Cherokee (disambiguation The Cherokee (Cherokee: , Tsa-La-Gi-Yi) are a people native to North America who first inhabited what is now the eastern and southeastern United States before most were forcefully moved to the Ozark Plateau..
At the end of the 16th century15th century 16th century 17th century more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 16th century was that century which lasted from 1501 to 1600. Events Beginning of the " Little Ice Age" a cooling period that resulted in lower crop yi when England began to colonize North America, "Virginia" was the name Queen Elizabeth I of England gave to the whole area explored by the 1584 expedition of Sir Walter Raleigh along the coast of North America, eventually applying to the whole coast from South Carolina to Maine. The London Virginia Company became incorporated as a joint stock company by a royal charter drawn up on April 10, 1606. It swiftly financed the first permanent English settlement in the New World which was at Jamestown in the Virginia Colony in 1607. Its Second Charter was officially ratified on May 23, 1609.
Virginia was given its nickname "The Old Dominion" by King Charles II of England at the time of the Restoration for remaining loyal to the crown during the English Civil War. Patrick Henry served as the first Governor of Virginia, from 1776-79, and again from 1784-86. On June 12, 1776, the Virginia Convention adopted the Virginia Declaration of Rights, a document that influenced the Bill of Rights added later to the United States Constitution. On June 29, 1776, the convention adopted a constitution that established Virginia as a commonwealth independent of the British Empire. In 1790 both Virginia and Maryland ceded territory to form the new District of Columbia, but in an Act of Congress dated July 9, 1846, the territory that had been ceded by Virginia was returned, and is now Arlington County and part of the City of Alexandria.
Virginia is one of the states that seceded from the Union to become the Confederacy during the Civil War. When it did, some counties were separated as West Virginia, an act which was upheld by the United States Supreme Court in 1870.
Virginia formally rejoined the Union on January 26, 1870 after a period of post-war military rule.
On January 13, 1990 Douglas Wilder became the first African American governor of a US state to serve as Governor after Reconstruction when he was elected Governor of Virginia.
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