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This Frenchman provided troops, ships, and money to the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
Who is The Marquis de Lafayette?
Thomas Jefferson wrote this document to express his views on the importance of Freedom of Religion.
What is the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom?
This invention allowed farmers to grow more wheat with fewer workers.
What is the mechanical reaper?
She was the first African American woman in the U.S. to establish a bank and become bank president.
Who is Maggie L. Walker
The place that the British army surrendered in 1781.
What is Yorktown?
This general was the leader of the Northern Army of Virginia.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
The name given to the citizen representative in the 1619 General Assembly.
What is a Burgess?
This 1954 Supreme Court Case ruled that "separate but equal" public schools were unconstitutional.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
This 16-year-old student from Farmville Virginia led a student strike against segragation in 1951.
Who was Barbara Johns?
The directions large numbers of Virginians move after the American Revolution.
What is west and to the deep south?
This man wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights, emphasizing the importance of freedom of the press and religion.
Who is George Mason?
What is the New Deal?
The branches of Virginia's government.
What are legislative, executive, and judicial?
This man was the first African American to be elected a state governor and it happened here, in Virginia.
Who was L. Douglas Wilder?
Joh Brown led a raid in this location.
What is Harper's Ferry?
A famous abolitionist known for her support of the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This government agency was created to provide food, public schools, and medical care for freed African Americans.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
The first legislative body in English North America.
What is the General Assembly?
The man was responsible for appointing more African Americans and women to positions in government than his predecessors.
Who was A. Linwood Holton, Jr.?
The three capitals of Virginia in chronological order.
What are Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Richmond?
This man was responsible for Virginia's "pay-as-you-go" policy for road improvements as well as promoting the Massive Resistance.
Who is Harry F. Byrd, Sr.?
The laws that legally established segregation in the south?
What are "Jim Crow" Laws?
This development led to agricultural opportunity in the south and attracted settlers from Virginia?
What is the Cotton Gin?
Remembered for his skills of compromise during the Constitutional Convention.
Who was James Madison?
This group of states wanted the new states to be "free states."
What are the Norther states?