Founding Fathers
Major Documents
Agriculture
Western Migration
Cumberland Gap
100
This Virginian was known as the "Father of our Country".
Who is George Washington?
100
This document stated that all men were created equal and the reasons we wanted to separate from England and be our own country.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
100
What is this?
What is the mechanical reaper?
100
These two directions were used mostly by Virginians after the Revolutionary War when changes in their agricultural began to take place.
What are west and south?
100
The Wilderness Road, a trail, created a natural break in the mountain range. This was known as the ...
What is Cumberland Gap
200
This famous Virginian wrote the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom giving all Virginians the right to worship as they please.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
This document states how the government for our new nation would be set up and the rights of its citizens.
What is the Constitution?
200
What is this?
What is the cotton gin?
200
This crop depleted the soil causing Virginians to move to a new area.
What is tobacco?
200
Why was it hard to travel westward in search of more land? What was the challenge?
What is climbing the Appalachian Mountains?
300
This famous Virginian was called the "Father of the Constitution".
Who is James Madison?
300
This document written by Thomas Jefferson stated that all Virginians had the right to worship as they please and provided religious freedom to all Virginians.
What is the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom?
300
Which device quickly removed seeds from cotton?
What is the cotton gin?
300
This was the main reason Virginians began migrating westward.
What is needed more land?
300
This mountain range from Georgia to Maine created a barrier to those settlers moving west.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
400
I am a famous Virginian who wanted to be remembered after my death for authoring two major documents in my lifetime.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
400
This document written by George Mason provided freedom of speech, religion, and press. It would later serve as a model for the Bill of Rights to be added later to the Constitution.
What is the Virginia Declaration of Rights?
400
Which device quickly cut and organized wheat stalks?
What is the Mechanical Reaper?
400
By settling in new areas, many Virginians found to have more ________ to be successful.
What are opportunities?
400
The Cumberland Gap created a pathway to get to this bordering state to the west of Virginia.
What is the Kentucky?
500
I am a Virginian who wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights and refused to sign the Constitution until a decision to add the Bill of Rights was made.
Who is George Mason?
500
Name the two important Documents of Virginians and their rights.
What are the Declaration of Rights and the Statute for Religious Freedom?
500
What were the two new industrial appliances that helped advance farming?
What are the cotton gin and the mechanical reaper.
500
As Virginians moved, they took with them their ideas, traditions, and these.
What is culture?
500
These two groups of people mainly settled in the Valley and Ridge area of Virginia.
What are Scot-Irish and German?