1 Geography
Name the 5 regions from east to west.
Coastal Plain (Tidewater), Piedmont, Blue Ridge Mountains, Valley & Ridge, and Appalachian Plateau
Name the 3 places the capital of Virginia in order
Jamestown
Williamsburg
Richmond
Name "fathers"
Father of Country
Father of Constitution
George Washington
James Madison
How was the south different from the north?
South wanted slaves & had agricultural economy.
North did not want slaves & had industrial economy.
Newly freedmen rented land and promised pay owners with a share of the crops
Name the bodies of water that border Virginia.
Atlantic Ocean & Chesapeake Bay
Name 2 events that happened in 1619.
Africans arrived as a slaves & first meeting of the General Assembly
African American that served in the Continental Army
James Lafayette
Who am I?
1. Led a raid at Harpers Ferry
2. Led a revolt against plantation owners
1. John Brown
2. Nat Turner
3 things provided by the Freedmen's Bureau
1. Food
2. School
3. Medical Care
What area in the Coastal Plain has a vary of animals?
Dismal Swamp
3 changes the colonists made for survival in Jamestown.
1. Arrival of supply ships
2. Forced Work Program by John Smith
3. Emphasis on agriculture
Henry's famous words
Give me liberty or give me death
Name the 2 ironclads & what side they were on.
Merrimack- Confederate
Monitor- Union
List the 3 branches and their jobs.
Judicial- decide if people are guilt/ laws agree with constitution
Legislative- make laws
Executive- carries out laws
Name the states that border Virginia starting with the northern state.
Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina
List where the following groups settled:
1. Germans
2. Indians
3. Africans
4. Scots-Irish
1. Shenandoah Valley
2. Coastal Plain & Piedmont
3. Coastal Plain & Piedmont
4. Shenandoah Valley
Name writer:
Virginia Declaration of Rights
Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
George Mason
Thomas Jefferson
Confederate or Union:
1. Abraham Lincoln
2. Robert E Lee
3. Ulysses S Grant
4. Thomas Jefferson
1. Union
2. Confederate
3. Union
4. Confederate
Name region with products:
1. Apples, Farming
2. Horses, Farming, Government Jobs, Tobacco, Technology
1. Valley & Ridge or Blue Ridge
2. Piedmont
Name the cities of the four rivers. (Potomac, Rappahannock, York & James)
Potomac- Alexandria
Rappahannock- Fredericksburg
York- Yorktown
James- Richmond & James
Name 3 reasons the capital moved from Williamsburg to Richmond.
1. Population was moving west
2. Richmond is more central
3. Increased distance from sea and possible attack from British
Name Battles:
1. First land battle in Virginia
2. American victory
1. Battle of Great Bridge
2. Battle of Yorktown
1. First major clash (battle)
2. Capital that burned
3. Lee surrendered to Grant in ________.
4. Sea battle between these 2 places
1. Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)
2. Richmond
3. Appomattox Courthouse
4. Norfolk & Hampton
Name what the person did:
1. Oliver Hill Sr
2. A Linwood Holton Jr
3. L Douglas Wilder
1. Lawyer & Civil rights leader
2. governor that promoted racial equity
3. first African American elected governor