Vocabulary
Amend
What is to change a law?
A pattern of behavior shared by a group (food, language, clothing, music, customs, etc.)
What is culture?
1619
When did the first Africans arrive at Jamestown?
Reasons for the War
What were laws and taxes?
Father of our Country
Who is George Washington?
Constitution
What is a written plan for government?
Housing: Small Farmers
What is most white Virginians made a living from their land and lived in one-room homes with dirt floors.
Profits from cash crops
What was dependence on steady and inexpensive source of labor? Africans were brought to VA and enslaved to work on plantations.
Marquis de LaFayette
Who is a French nobleman, who volunteered for the Continental Army during the American Revolution? The king of France provided French troops, ships, and money. Lafayette contributed to the victory at Yorktown.
Father of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Patriot
Who is a person who loves, supports, and defends his country with dedication?
Housing: Wealthy Farmers
What is wealthy people (merchants, lawyers, planters) lived in large houses, and had many servants or slaves?
Contributions to Colonial Music
African slaves brought musical traditions, and sometimes instruments, with them to America. Slave songs, jubilees, sorrow songs, & spirituals spoke to the black experience in America prior to the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.
Native Americans' Role
What was to fight on the side of both the Virginia Patriots, and also the British?
Father of the U.S. Constitution
Who is James Madison?
Frontier
What is land beyond the boundaries of settled or mapped areas?
Enslaves Africans
Who are people who worked in the tobacco fields, harvested crops, and handled livestock, and had no rights and no chance to make a better life?
Free Africans
Who were Africans who were not enslaved. Some owned their own businesses or property. They were still denied most rights and could not vote or testify in court.
The Battle of Yorktown
What is the last battle of the Revolutionary War where the British surrendered?
Give me liberty, or give me death!
What is the speech given by Patrick Henry, spurring the American Revolution?
What is another word for state? VA chose it because its new government was based upon the power of the people working for the common good.
Germans & Scots-Irish
Who were other European immigrants to North America, who settled primarily in the Shenandoah Valley of VA?
James LaFayette
Who is an enslaved African American, who served as a spy for the Patriots. He successfully requested his freedom after the war with the support of the Marquis de Lafayette.
Treaty of Paris
What is the document signed in Paris, France by Great Britain, the United States of America, & Canada in 1783, ended the American Revolutionary War?
Wrote the VA Declaration of Rights
Who is George Mason?