The capital of Virginia moved from Williamsburg to which city?
Richmond
Commander in Chief of the Continental Army for the Revolution
served as First President after the war
considered "Father of Our Country" and seen as a role model for future leaders
George Washington
No taxation without _______________
Representation
Who won the Revolutionary War?
America
The Revolution was about the colonist wanting the right to ________________ themselves, but British Parliament believed they had the right to _____________ the colonists
govern
Went on a night ride throught he backwoods of Virginia to warn Thomas Jefferson and the General Assembly that the British were on their way to arrest them, allowing the men to escape.
Jack Jouette
Father of the Constitution
Skilled at compromise
Kept good notes during the Continental Congress
James Madison
The last battle of the Revolution was at
Yorktown
The Virginia Declaration of Rights was written by
George Mason
This person wrote the Declaration of Independence, served as Governor of Virginia
Thomas Jefferson
Virginians who went south and west out of VA, took their clothes, food, language, beliefs traditions and _______________ with them.
Culture
The first battle of the Revolution was at
Great Bridge
This document, was written by Thomas Jefferson, but was about the idea that all people should be able to worship as they pleased.
a-Declaration of Independence
b-constitution of the United States
c-Virginia Declarations of Rights
d-Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom
Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom
Two men have a similar name but they did different things for the Patriots during the Revolution. For double points, name what these two each did for America
James Lafayette and the Marquis de Lafayette
James was a slave who fought for the Continental Army and had to later fight to have his freedom from slavery, and The Marquis was a french nobleman who help the patriots win at Yorktown to end the war.
What 3 words begin the preamble of the US Constitution written by Thomas Jefferson
We the People
DOUBLE Jeopardy
What did Eli Whitney invent that made sorting cotton easier? And what did Cyrus McCormick invented that made harvesting wheat easier?
Eli-Cotton Gin
Cyrus-Mechanical Reaper
Virginians believed that they should be their own governing country because they didn't have this in England.
Representation
what were the 3 types of virginians during the war? One fought for the british, one fought against the british, and the rest took neither side.
Loyalists, Patriots and Neural
Virginian when through this area of the Appalachian Mountains in order to head westward and better farmland.
Cumberland Gap
Why did Virginians begin to migrate out of Virginia?
Tobacco farming ruined the soil in VA and they went in search of better farmland