Founding Fathers
Major Documents
Nat Turner
Western Migration
Inventions & Agriculture
100
This Virginian was known as the "Father of our Country".
Who is George Washington?
100
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?
100

Nat Turner is known for ___________________.

Leading a revolt/rebellion against slave owners/plantation owners.

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 cotton gin invention led to _______________.

Farmers looking for new lands to settle in.

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

This word means an armed fight against one's government or an uprising.

Rebellion

200

The Wilderness Road, a trail, created a natural break in the mountain range. Virginia's migrated through this area to go west.  This was known as the ...

What is Cumberland Gap

200

The mechanical reaper allowed farmers to _____________________.

Grow more wheat with fewer workers

300

This famous Virginian was called the "Father of the Constitution," kept detailed notes at the Continental Congress meetings, and was skilled in compromise.

Who is James Madison?

300

Which two documents came before and inspired many of the ideas in the Bill of Rights.

Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom and the Virginia Declaration of Rights.

300

Nat Turner led a rebellion against ___________.

Slave owners or enslavers. 

300
This was the main reason Virginians began migrating westward.
What is needed more land?
300

This crops was still the major cash crop of Virginia.

Tobacco

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

What impact did Nat Turner's Rebellion have on slavery?

Laws became more strict for enslaved African Americans and free African Americans.

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

Farmers were also looking for new land to farm because tobacco farming was _________.

Very hard on the soil.

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

The first ten amendments to the Constitution are called these.  This document was also inspired by the Virginia Declaration of Rights and the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom.

What are the Bill of Rights?

500

Nat Turner led the rebellion against slave owners because _______________.

He believed freedom was worth fighting for, even at great risk.

500
As Virginians moved, they took with them their ideas, traditions, and these.
What is culture?
500

After the American Revolution, Virginia's agricultural base began to ___________.

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