Virginia Studies Important People

A General during the Civil war who earned his nickname at the First Battle of Bull Run?

First African American Tennis Champion and was an author and spokesperson for social change?

Lead General of the Union during the Civil War and burned Richmond near the end of the war?

21st Century general who created an economic plan for World Peace?

Led a raid on Harpers Ferry Virginia, trying to start a slave rebellion?

Rode on horseback to warm Thomas Jefferson that the British were coming to arrest him?

Commander and Chief of the Continental Army and the First President of the United States?

Lawyer and civil rights leader who played a key role in the "Brown v.s. the Board of Education"

21st Century president who wrote a plan for world peace?

Saved the struggling Virginia colony with his force work program and traded with the Powhatan?

First African American Women to open a bank and become a bank president?

British General during the Revolutionary war whose surrender led to the colonial victory?

A spy for the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War and was freed after the war?

Helped escaped slaves travel to the North using the Underground Railroad?

Known as the "Father of the Constitution" for taking detailed notes and skills at compromising?

Author of the Declaration of Independence and the Virginia Statue of Religious Freedom?

Lead General of the Confederacy during the Civil War?

Inspired patriots to fight by saying "Give me liberty or give me death!"

President during the Civil War who freed the slaves with the Emancipation Proclamation?

As Governor of VA he appointed more African Americans and women to state and public offices

Wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights?

Leader of the Massive Resistance Movement and created the Pay as you go policy?

Led a slave revolt against Virginia plantation owners?

First African American Governor of Virginia and of any state in the United States?