Virginia Studies -- Famous People

Who spoke out against taxation without representation, which inspired patriots to join the war?

Who was a twentieth-century president who wrote a plan for world peace after WWI?

Who said: "He who does not work, shall not eat!"

Who created the League of Nations after WWI?

Who played a key role in the Brown v. Board of Education decision?

Who wrote the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom?

What governor was known for the "Pay As You Go" policy for road improvements?

Who explored and surveyed the Dismal Swamp?

What civil rights leader & attorney (lawyer), worked for equal rights of African Americans?

Who arrived in Jamestown against their will in 1619?

What governor was the first African American to be elected to state government in the U.S.?

Who was trying to start a slave rebellion, but was captured and hanged?

Who is nicknamed "Father of the Constitution"?

Who believed it had the right to tax the colonies, which leads to the Revolutionary War?

Who was the leader of the Powhatan tribe in 1607?

Werowocomoco was headquarters for what leader?

Who was an author and spokesperson for social change?

Who arrived in Jamestown in 1620 and made it a more permanent settlement by starting families?

Who used the "Underground Railroad?"

Who used the Union navy to blockade southern ports?

Who led the Massive Resistance Movement against the desegregation of schools?

Who is nicknamed "Father of Our Country"?

Southern states seceded & formed the Confederate States of America after this man was elected?

Who captured Africans from present-day Angola, and brought them to Virginia?

Who had strong leadership skills and was a model for future presidents?

Who was the Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia?

Who wrote a document that included: freedom of religion and freedom of the press?

Who wrote that "all people have the right to life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness"?

What military leader created the Marshall Plan after WWII?

Who taught the settlers in Jamestown survival skills?

Who defeated Union troops at Fredericksburg?

Who arrived in Jamestown in 1619 and helped expand the tobacco economy?

Who provided strong military leadership during the Revolutionary War?

Who warned Thomas Jefferson the British were coming to arrest him, and prevented his capture?

Richmond, the capital of the Confederacy, fell to which general, and was burned?

Who financed (paid for) the settlement of Jamestown?

Who believed it had legal authority in the colonies, which leads to the Revolutionary War?

Who rode horseback through the backwoods of Virginia to Charlottesville?

Who called people "Indians" for the first time because he thought he was in the Indies?

Who was elected president of the United States in 1860?

Who was the first African American woman in the United States to establish a bank?

Who served in the Continental army as a spy?

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Who played a major role in the first Battle of Bull Run at Manassas?

Who provided political leadership during the Revolutionary War by writing a famous document?

Who served as a contact between the native people and the English?

Who was the first president of the United States?

What slave served in continental army and was granted his/her freedom at the end of the war?

Who wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights?

Who supported a secret route that runaway slaves took?

Who had a forced work program that resulted in the survival of Jamestown?

Who granted charters to the Virginia Company of London?

What governor appointed more African Americans & women to positions in the state government?

Who kept detailed notes during the constitutional convention?

Who served as the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War?

Who led a slave revolt, killing 50 plantation owners?

Who surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia in April 1865?

Who was the daughter of Chief Powhatan?

Who was the first African American winner of a major men's tennis singles championship?

Who wrote a document that states that all people should be free to worship as they please?

Who became a bank president?

Who led a raid on the US Armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia?

Who created an economic plan to ensure world peace after WWII?

Who said "give me liberty or give me death!"

What governor modernized Virginia's state government?

Who had skills at compromise, so delegates reached agreement when writing of the constitution?

Who loved his new country and believed in the importance of having a constitution?