Virginia Facts
Name the 5 regions of Virginia in order from east to west.
Coastal Plain (Tidewater), Piedmont, Blue Ridge Mountains, Valley and Ridge, and the Appalachian Plateau.
The colonist felt they should not be __________ because they had ____________ in Parliament.
taxed, no representation
Who took detailed notes at the Constitutional Convention?
James Madison
What was the name for the North/South during the war?
Union/Confederacy
Unfair treatment because of race and/or gender
Discrimination
Name the four Virginia rivers that flow into the Chesapeake Bay in order of north to south.
Potomac River, Rappahannock River, York River, and James River
Name one of the hardships faced in Jamestown?
What were some of the hardships of Jamestown?
No safe drinking water, Lacked survival skills and died of starvation and disease
Who wrote the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom?
Thomas Jefferson
What was the first battle of the war?
Battle of Bull Run/First Manassas
Separation of race or religion
Segregation
Name the states that border Virginia.
Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina
Who was the well known French man that helped America?
Marquis De Lafayette
The first ten amendments added to the Constitution are called these.
What are the Bill of Rights?
Who surrendered and where?
Robert E. Lee and V.A. Appomattox Court House
What laws gave African-Americans less rights than whites
Jim Crow Laws
This mountain range is part of the Valley and Ridge region.
Appalachian Mountains
What were the names of the three positions people in the colonies took during the Revolutionary War?
Patriot, Loyalist, Neutralist
The Virginia Declaration of Rights protects which too rights?
Freedom of religion and press
Who was president of the North/South?
Lincoln/Jefferson Davis
Name for the system when you farm on another person's land and pay the rent with crops you grow at the end of the season.
Sharecropping
This river forms a natural border between Virginia and Maryland.
Potomac Rivera
In the Declaration of Independence it states that all people have the right to __________, __________, and __________.
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
In what order were these documents written? 1. The Constitution of the United States of America, 2. The Declaration of Independence, 3. The Virginia Company of London Charter (put the numbers)
The Virginia Company of London Charter, The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution of the United States of America
Which battle ended in a draw?
Ironclad battle/Monitor & Merrimack
Name something that the Freedmen's Bureau helped with and for who.
Education, clothes, housing, food for formerly enslaved people and poor white farmers.