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History of Virginia

a brief text book for schools
  
  
  
  
  

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QUESTIONS

  • 1. Why did England encourage the traffic in negroes?

  • 2. What did Virginia do to prevent its growth?

  • 3. What was New England's connection with slavery?

  • 4. Why was it encouraged both by the New England and cotton
    states?

  • 5. What change of feeling in regard to slavery had taken place in the
    North?

  • 6. Give an account of Gabriel's Insurrection.

  • 7. Of Nat Turner's Insurrection.

  • 8. What was the sentiment in Virginia in later times?

  • 9. What is said of fugitive slaves?

  • 10. Who was John Brown, and what is said of his raid?

  • 11. By whom was he captured?

  • 12. Give the leading facts in the life of Robert E. Lee.

  • 13. What was Brown's fate?

  • 14. Give the report of the Senate Committee on this raid.

  • 15. What weapons did John Brown bring, who were they for, and
    where made?

  • 16. What did an investigation show?