Leaders
Who is called the "Father of Our Country" according to according to Virginia Studies Text?
Who was George Washington?
What is James Madison known as?
Who was the father of the Constitution?
What was the main reason the Confederates used slaves in the war effort?
To help them in the war effort
What group relied on enslaved African Americans to raise crops and provide labor for the army?
Who was the confederacy?
what was the first major clash of the Civil War? (daily double - make a wager before answering and get all points if the answer is correct)
What was the Battle of Bull Run (or Manassas)?
Which city was the capital of the Confederacy during the Civil War?
what was Richmond?
Who is James Madison?
Who was the Father of the Constitution?
Machine that allowed farmers to grow more wheat
What was the mechanical reaper?
Which crop was hard on the soil, causing many farmers to look west and south for new land to farm?
Tobacco
Who surrendered his army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in April, 1865? (daily double - make a wager before answering and get all points if the answer is correct)
Who was General Robert E. Lee?
What led to the creation of West Virginia?
What was the conflict between the eastern counties of Virginia that relied on slavery and the western counties that did not favor slavery?
What right do people have based on the VA Statute of religious freedom?
what is the right to religious freedom?
Who is the “Father of the Constitution?”
Who was James Madison?
Which event marked the secession (withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860) of Virginia from the Union? (daily double)
what was the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States?
What was the Underground Railroad?
what was a secret route that escaped enslaved African Americans took, known as the "Underground Railroad"?
What were the cultural, economic, and constitutional differences between the North and the South that eventually led to the Civil War?
What were differences in cultural, economic, and constitutional aspects, including views on slavery?
two rights virginians have based on the VA Declaration of Rights? (Daily Double - make a wager before answering and get all points if the answer is correct)
what was freedom of life and liberty?
What machine led to the opening of the new lands in the south?
what was the cotton gin?
George Washington provided _____________
what was a model of leadership?
Who believed in the importance of having a United States Constitution?
James Madison
What two documents did Thomas Jefferson write? (daily double - make a wager before answering and get all points if the answer is correct)
What was the declaration of independence and VA statute of religious freedom?
What did the Virginia Declaration of Rights and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom provide?
Significant rights
What geographical feature did settlers cross as they migrated to new lands in the west?
what was the Cumberland Gap?
What was one of the reasons that caused many Virginians to leave the state in search of jobs? (daily double - make a wager before answering and get all points if the answer is correct)
what was the invention of the mechanical reaper?
Who was the first President? (daily double - make a wager before answering and get all points if the answer is correct)
Who was George Washington?