Founding Fathers
Major Documents
New Inventions
Western Migration
Cumberland Gap
100
This Virginian was known as the "Father of our Country".
Who is George Washington?
100

This is the document that states all people are created equal, and lists the reasons why the colonists felt they should be independent from the King.

What is the Declaration of Independence?

100

Virginia was a society focused around __________________ (think farming)

Agriculture

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 natural break in the mountain range is called 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. This took a lot of compromise to write.

What is the Constitution?

200

Because tobacco farming was hard on the soil....

Virginias moved south and west in search of better soil to farm.

200
This crop depleted the soil causing Virginians to move to a new area.
What is tobacco?
200

Virginians moved in which direction through the Cumberland Gap?

North, South, East or West?

West

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

Because the cotton gin was invented and made processing cotton easier....

Virginians moved to the south for new land to farm the cotton on

300

What 4 things did Virginians take with them when they migrated south and west?

1. enslaved people

2. ideas

3. traditions

4. cultures

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 people nicknamed "the Father of the Constitution".

Who is James Madison?

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

Because of the mechanical reaper letting farmers harvest more wheat....

people lost their jobs and had to migrate south and west.

400
By settling in new areas, many Virginians found to have more ________ to be successful.
What are opportunities?
400

DOUBLE THE POINTS!!!!

Which two documents did Thomas Jefferson write?

1. Declaration of Independence

2. The Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom

500

I am a Virginian who wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights.

Who is George Mason?

500

Rights like freedom of the press and freedom of religion say that we can practice whatever religion and say/write how we feel as long as.....

we are following the rules / laws of where we are at.

500

DOUBLE THE POINTS!!!!!!!

1. What does migrate mean?

2. Where did Virginians migrate to?

1. to move/ leave

2. southern states, western territories

500

What mountain range is the Cumberland Gap located in?

Appalachian Mountains

500

These two groups of people mainly settled in the Blue Ridge Mountain area of Virginia.

a) African and English

b) English and Germans

c) Scotch-Irish and Germans

What are Scotch-Irish and German?

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