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What enslaved person led a revolt against plantation owners?
Nat Turner
Who was the president of the United States during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
An agency that provided education and other services to newly freed African Americans and others in the south.
What group of people campaigned to end slavery?
Abolitionists
When the early settlers of Virginia migrated west, which two geographical features did they have to cross?
Appalachian mountains and Cumberland Gap
Where did General Lee surrender to General Grant?
Appomattox Court House
What is segregation? Give an example?
seperation of people pf color..
a sign on the door of a bathroom that says "whites only"
What machine increased cotton production in the deep south and attracted many Virginians to move there?
What was James Madison known for?
He helped delegates reach a agreements during the writing of the constitution.
"Father of our Constitution"
What is General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson known for?
Playing a major role in the first battle of Bull Run (Manassas)
What was the cause of the unfair poll taxes?
Jim Crow Laws
For which side was the Army of Northern Virginia fighting?
Confederate
Who wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights?
George Mason
Who attempted to raid the US Armory to start a slave rebellion but failed?
John Brown
What was "sharecropping"?
Freedmen and poor whites rented land and promised to pay landowners with crops
The Monitor and Merrimack battled in the waters off the coast of-
Norfolk
What influenced Virginians to move migrate westward after the American Revolution?
Tobacco farming took many nutrients from the soil, causing many farmers to look for new land to farm.
Where did Robert E Lee defeat Union troops?
Fredericksburg
Who did Robert E Lee surrender to at Appomattox court house?
Ulysses Grant
What date belongs on this newspaper article heading?
"Breaking News! General Robert E Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House!"
April 1865