St. Paul’s Parish
Stamp Act
Stamp Act Congress
State debts, assumption of, plans for
States’ rights, respect for, plan for
State vs. national power. See National vs. state power
Stephens, Alexander
Suffolk Resolves
Suffolk, Virginia
Sugar Act
Syme, John
Syme, John, Jr. (half-brother)
Syme, Sarah. See Henry, Sarah (mother)
Tanaghrisson
Tariffs. See Customs duties/tariffs
Tarleton, Banastre “Bloody Ban”
Taxes
Confederation Congress and
congressional plan to implement new
customs duties/tariffs
funding churches
under the new Constitution
on sugar
without representation, resistance to
See also Stamp Act
Taylor, John
Tea Act
Tea Party
Tea tax
See also Boston Tea Party
Temples of Reason
Tennessee
Tenth Amendment
Thomson, Charles
Tidewater region, Virginia
Tobacco currency
Tobacco farming
Toleration Act
Tombigbee River
Townshend, Charles
Townshend Duties
Trade
with Britain, dependency on
European barriers to
Mississippi River and
regulating colonial
Seven Years’ War and
See also Commerce; Slave trade
Trade status, favorable, granting
Trail of Tears
Treason
Treason laws
Treaty of Paris
Trenchard, John
Trenton, Battle of
Tucker, St. George
Two Penny Act (1755)
Two Penny Act (1758)
Tyler, John, Sr.
United States of America, naming the
U.S. army. See Continental army
U.S. Congress
cost of maintaining the, concern over
first convened
powers of, under the new Constitution
U.S. Constitution
amendments to the, issue of
first form of the
opposition to the
“parchment barriers” of the
powers under the
ratification of the
strict interpretation of the, advocate for
U.S. House of Representatives
U.S. Senate
powers of, under the new Constitution
U.S. Supreme Court
Valley Forge disaster
Vermont Gazette (newspaper)
Veterans’ care
Vice president, office of the
View of the Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion, A (Jenyns)
Vincennes (Illinois territory)
Virginia
attacks on
backcountry
Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom in
civil war in
and collection of the Stamp Act
colonial government of
colonization of
committee of correspondence
currency in, tobacco as
declaring independence, debate over
final battle in
Great Awakening in
indebtedness and
interest in controlling the West
militias/military of
Parsons’ Cause and
period of quiet in
population of
response to the Alien and Sedition Acts
secession threats and
Seven Years’ War and
western frontiers of, opening up the, desire for
See also specific cities, locations, and institutions
Virginia Committee of Safety
Virginia Constitution
Virginia Conventions
Virginia Declaration of Rights
Virginia Gazette (newspaper)
Virginia General Court
Virginia House of Burgesses
Boston Port Bill and
bribery case involving the
dissolution of the
Henry’s ascension to the
Parsons’ Cause and
reconvened
religious rights and
slavery and
Stamp Act and
Townshend Duties and
Virginia government and
Virginia House of Delegates
and the general assessment plan
Henry attacking Madison in the
Henry running again for the
investigation of Jefferson
power held by the
See also Virginia legislature / assembly
Virginia Independent Chronicle (newspaper)
Virginia legislature/assembly
land grant appeals and the
manumission of slaves permitted by
response to attacks on Virginia
response to Jefferson’s resignation
voting for Henry as sixth governor
See also Virginia House of Burgesses; Virginia House of Delegates; Virginia Senate
Virginia Resolution
Virginia Senate
Virtue
Volunteer army, issue with a
Voting power
Wabash Confederacy
WallBuilders organization
War of 1812
War on Terrorism
War, power to make
Ward, Artemas
Wartime powers, need for
Washington, George
Articles of Confederation and
bribery by
campaign to replace, as military commander
as commander of the Continental army
as Constitutional Convention delegate
as Continental Congress delegate
death of
efforts to recruit Henry to a national office
elected to the House of Burgesses
Federalist Party of
on Henry as a military commander
Henry supporting
indebtedness of
as land speculator
Mount Vernon estate of
national influence of
as a planter
political break from Madison
posthumous biographical treatment of
as president
on publicly supported religion
religious pluralism and
request for a national military
retirement of, from the army
retiring as president
Seven Years’ War and
support for the U.S. Constitution
Townshend Duties and
Washington, Martha
Watson-Wentworth, Charles
Waxhaws, South Carolina
Wesley, John
West Point, New York
White, Alexander
Whitefield, George
William, King of England
Williamsburg, Virginia
Wirt, William
Witherspoon, John
Wolfe, James
Woodford, William
Wythe, George
Yazoo land grant
Yorktown, Virginia
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