Virginia Facts
Colonial VA/Revolution
New Nation
Civil War
Reconstruction
100

Name the 5 regions of Virginia in order from east to west.

Coastal Plain (Tidewater), Piedmont, Blue Ridge Mountains, Valley and Ridge, and the Appalachian Plateau.

100

The colonist felt they should not be __________ because they had ____________ in Parliament.

taxed, no representation

100

Who took detailed notes at the Constitutional Convention?

James Madison

100

What was the name for the North/South during the war?

Union/Confederacy

100

Unfair treatment because of race and/or gender

Discrimination

200

Name the four Virginia rivers that flow into the Chesapeake Bay in order of north to south.

Potomac River, Rappahannock River, York River, and James River

200

Name one of the hardships faced in Jamestown?


What were some of the hardships of Jamestown?

No safe drinking water, Lacked survival skills and died of starvation and disease

200

Who wrote the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom?

Thomas Jefferson

200

What was the first battle of the war?

Battle of Bull Run/First Manassas

200

Separation of race or religion

Segregation

300

Name the states that border Virginia. 

Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina

300

Who was the well known French man that helped America?

Marquis De Lafayette  

300

The first ten amendments added to the Constitution are called these.

What are the Bill of Rights?

300

Who surrendered and where?

Robert E. Lee and V.A. Appomattox Court House

300

What laws gave African-Americans less rights than whites

Jim Crow Laws

400

This mountain range is part of the Valley and Ridge region.

Appalachian Mountains

400

What were the names of the three positions people in the colonies took during the Revolutionary War?

Patriot, Loyalist, Neutralist

400

The Virginia Declaration of Rights protects which too rights?

Freedom of religion and press

400

Who was president of the North/South?

Lincoln/Jefferson Davis

400

Name for the system when you farm on another person's land and pay the rent with crops you grow at the end of the season.

Sharecropping

500

This river forms a natural border between Virginia and Maryland.

Potomac Rivera

500

In the Declaration of Independence it states that all people have the right to __________, __________, and __________.

life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

500

In what order were these documents written? 1. The Constitution of the United States of America, 2. The Declaration of Independence, 3. The Virginia Company of London Charter (put the numbers)

The Virginia Company of London Charter, The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution of the United States of America

500

Which battle ended in a draw?

Ironclad battle/Monitor & Merrimack

500

Name something that the Freedmen's Bureau helped with and for who.

Education, clothes, housing, food for formerly enslaved people and poor white farmers.