VS.6
Who is known as the “Father of Our Country”?
Who is George Washington.
Who led a raid on the US Armory at Harpers Ferry?
Who is John Brown.
The period following the Civil War when Congress passed laws designed to rebuild the country and bring the southern states back into the Union was called?
What is Reconstruction.
Who wrote the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom?
Who is Thomas Jefferson.
What government agency provided food, schools, and medical care for freed slaves and others in Virginia and the rest of the South?
What is Freedmen’s Bureau.
Which document states that all people should be free to worship as they please?
What is Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom.
Where and when did the Civil War end?
What is Appomattox Court House, Virginia 1865
After Reconstruction, what established segregation, or separation of the races, and reinforced prejudices held by whites?
What are “Jim Crow” Laws.
Who used the Union Navy to blockade Southern ports?
Who is Abraham Lincoln.
Who is known as the “Father of the Constitution”?
Who is James Madison.
What did the settlers pass through as they crossed the Appalachian Mountains, migrating to new lands in the west?
What is Cumberland Gap.
An abolitionist is....
What is someone who wants to end slavery.
What is unfair difference in the treatment of people?
What is Discrimination.
What was a key to the expansion of business, agriculture, and industry after Reconstruction?
What is Railroads.
Who led a revolt against slavery?
Who is Nat Turner.
In the late 1700s, Virginia’s agricultural base began to change after what?
What is The American Revolution.
The Northern army was called what?
What is the Union.
What were some examples of segregation in the South?
What were separate restaurants, schools and restrooms
Which crop was hard on the soil, causing many farmers to look west and south for new land to farm?
What is Tobacco.
The separation of people, usually based on race or religion.
What is Segregation.
Who wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights?
Who is George Mason.
This person won the battle of Bull Run.
Who is Stonewall Jackson.
What system after the Civil War allowed freedmen and poor white farmers to rent land by promising to pay with a share of the crops?
What is Sharecropping.
This person won the Battle of Fredericksburg.
Who is Robert E Lee.
What mountains did the settlers cross as they migrated west to new lands?
What is the Appalachian Mountains.