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Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
Who took on more responsibility to support the war effort?
Women
Who rode horseback through the backwoods of Virginia to Charlottesville to warn Thomas Jefferson that the British were coming to arrest him and members of the General Assembly?
Jack Jouett
Some enslaved African Americans fought for a better chance of what?
Freedom
Where was the capital of the Confederacy?
Richmond
Which cultural group did not take sides during the Civil War?
American Indians
Most white Virginians supported which side during the Civil War?
Confederacy
The Confederacy relied on whom to raise crops and provide labor for the army?
enslaved African Americans
Prior to the arrival of the settlers, ________ _______ lived throughout Virginia. After the settlers arrived, most were forced inland.
American Indians
Did enslaved African Americans have rights?
No
What is a good or service that is owed to someone?
debt
Some Virginians remained loyal to Great Britain.They were called what?
loyalists
What is money put away to save or to spend at a later time?
savings
Christopher Columbus called the people he found in the lands he explored "Indians" because he thought he was in the _______ {near China}
Indies
Who in colonial Virginia lived in large houses?
Some farmers
Native peoples of the past ____, ____, and _____ for food.
Farmed, hunted, and fished
The native peoples showed the settlers how to plant new crops. Name 2 of these crops.
corn and tobacco
What farming was hard on the soil causing many farmers to look west and south for new land to farm?
tobacco
Name three artifacts found in Virginia.
arrowheads
pottery
tools
After the American Revolution, Virginia's agricultural base began to change, and as a result, large numbers of Virginians moved _______ and to the deep _____ to find better farmland and new opportunities.
1. West
2.South
What 4 groups of people had various roles during the American Revolution?
Whites
Enslaved African Americans
Free African Americans
American Indians
The Germans and Scots-Irish settled primarily where in Virginia? This place was along the migration route.
Shenandoah Valley
Over time, the native peoples realized the English settlement would continue to ________.
grow
Lincoln used the Union ______ to blockade southern ports.
Navy
Since Virginians were divided about secession from the Union, this led to the creation of what state?
West Virginia