Geography
What is the Coastal Plains?
What important Jamestown leader quoted, " If you shall not work, you shall not eat"?
Who is John Smith
Virginia's capital during the revolution
What is Williamsburg?
The southern economy was based on...
What is Agriculture?
Supreme Court case making segregated schools illegal.
What is Brown v. Board of education 1954
These two regions are well known for their apples
What is the Valley and Ridge Region and The Blue Ridge Mountains region?
What Jamestown settler married Pocahontas?
John Rolfe
This document states all people should be free to worship as they please
Bonus Points! (100) Who wrote this Document?
What is the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom?
Written by: Thomas Jefferson
He led a revolt against Virginia plantation owners before the civil war.
The first African American governor in the United States. He was a governor of Virginia.
Who is L. Douglas Wilder?
Name all of the Virginia regions in order from South to East.
Appalachian Plateau, Valley and Ridge, Blue Ridge Mountains, Piedmont, Coastal Plain
Who financed the Jamestown settlement?
The stockholders of the Virginia Company of London.
Author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights
Who is George Mason?
Elected President in 1860 - leading to the secession of several southern states.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What massive resistance was led by Harry F. Byrd?
Closing schools to avoid integrating them.
Name the 4 Rivers in order from North to South
Potomac, Rappahannock, York, and James
Name one reason why the settlers chose Jamestown's location.
Options: they believed it had fresh water, it provided great protection from the Spanish, water was deep enough to dock ships
List 3 examples of cultural landscapes
Barns, Homes and Churches
He refused to retreat at the first Battle of Manassas
Who is General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
What is the name of the legislative branch of the Virginia state government?
The General Assembly
What is a peninsula?
For Bonus Points - Which is peninsula bordered by the Chesapeake Bay to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the east.
A landform surrounded by water on 3 sides
The Eastern Shore
List the capitals of Virginia in order from first to last.
Jamestown, Williamsburg, Richmond
English General who surrendered at Yorktown, VA ending the revolution.
Who is Lord Cornwallis?
Union general who took Richmond at the end of the war.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
These Laws enforced segregation
Bonus Points if you can give an example!
What are Jim Crow Laws?