Founding Fathers
Major Documents
Constitution
Western Migration
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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
This famous Virginian kept detailed notes to help create the Constitution we have today.
Who is James Madison?
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 development of the _____ ___ and the _____ _____ led to improvement in farming.

What are the cotton gin and mechanical reaper.

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
The Constitution is a plan of...
What is government?
200
This crop depleted the soil causing Virginians to move to a new area.
What is tobacco?
200

Which machine led to more more jobs being created?

What is the cotton gin?

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
During the Constitutional Convention, many sides had to give in a bit to reach agreements. Giving in to reach an agreement is called a......Madison was good at this.
What is a compromise?
300
This was the main reason Virginians began migrating westward.
What is needed more land?
300

The mechanical reaper was used for which crop?

What is wheat?

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

The Preamble to the constitution start with what 3 words?

What are WE THE PEOPLE

400

Settlers crossed which mountains as they migrated west?

What are The Appalachian Mountains?

400

As Virginians migrate west and south, many enslaved people were sold. This lead to permanently ______________ enslaved families.

What is separating

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.
What are the Bill of Rights?
500
The Virginia Declaration of Rights served as a model for which amendment to the Constitution.
What is the First Amendment?
500

Daniel Boone blazed or cleared a path called the _________ ____ to help Virginians migrate west.

What is The Cumberland Gap

500

As Virginians migrated west, they passed through the mountains into what state?

What is Kentucky?

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