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100
It was the first land battle of the American Revolution fought in VA. The American victory forced the British colonial governor to flee the City of Norfolk.
What is The importance of the Battleof Great Bridge
100

The person who wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights.

Who is George Mason?

100
Battle of Bull Run, Fredricksburg, Richmond, battle of the Monitor and the Merrimack and Appomattox Court House.
What are Major Battles fought in VA
100

This government agency provided food, schools and medical care for newly freed slaves.

What is the Freedman's Bureau?

100

This is the legal end of segregation.

What is desegregation?

200
The last major battle of the Revolutionary War was fought in Yorktown. Our victory at Yorktown resulted in the surrender of the Brittish army which led to the end of the War.
What was the importance of the American victory at Yorktown.
200

This document written by Thomas Jefferson ensured that all Virginians would be free to worship as they please.

What is The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom?

200
The person responsible for a secret route that escaped enslaved African American s took later known as the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman
200

These are two laws passed that made it difficult for African Americans to vote and hold office.

What are Poll Taxes and Literacy Tests?

200

This 1954 Supreme Court decision declared that "separate but equal" public schools unconstitutional

What is Brown v. Board of Education?

300
The author of the VA statutes for Religious Freedom which states that all people should be free to worship as they please.
Who is Thomas Jefferson
300

This invention allowed farmers to grow more wheat with fewer workers, which forced many Virginians to leave the state in search of jobs.

What is the Mechanical Reaper?

300
He led a raid on the U.S. Armory (arsenal) at Harpers Ferry, VA.
Who is John Brown.
300

This system of farming was common after the war. Freedmen and poor white farmers rented land a payed part of their crops as rent.

What is Sharecropping?

300

He was the first African American Governor elected in the state of Virginia.

Who is L. Douglas. Wilder?

400
The Father of our Country, first president of the United States and a renowned leader of the Revolutionary war.
Who is George Washington
400

He was nicknamed "The Father of Our Constitution" for keeping detailed notes during the Constitutional Convention and helping the delegates compromise.

Who is James Madison?

400

The two Generals present when the war ended April 1865 at the Appomatox Courthouse

Who are Confederate General Robert E. Lee and Union General Ulysses S. Grant

400

Jim Crow laws made THIS legal. It forced African Americans to use separate public facilities, like restaurants and drinking fountains.

What is Segregation?

400

To oppose integration, Virginia began this. A campaign to keep schools racially segregated that led to the closing of many schools.

What is The Massive Resistance Movement?

500
The Man who inspired patriots from other Colonies when he spoke out against taxation without representation by saying "Give me liberty or give me death."
Who is Patrick Henry
500

The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom and the Virginia Declaration of Rights both influenced this founding document.

What is the Bill of Rights

500
The period following the Civil War in Which Congress passed laws designed to rebuild the country and bring the southern states back into the Union
What is Reconstruction
500

This is the term used to describe the move from human labor to the use of technology in farming.

What is mechanization?

500

a civil rights lawyer who helped argue Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County.

Who is Robert Russa Moton?

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