VA Studies practice for SOL test

After the American Revolution, why did so many Virginia farmers move west?

England hoped the colony would:

Trading or exchanging goods and services without using money is called:

What did George Mason write?

In which region did the Scots-Irish settle?

Name one reason Jamestown colonists died of starvation and disease.

What did Patrick Henry say to encourage colonists to fight for independence?

Why was slavery not popular in the north?

Name Virginia's 3 capitals:  Jamestown, Williamsburg, and

What is sharecropping?

The Civil War ended at:

Why did businesses and cities grow after Reconstruction?

What battle ended the American Revolution?

The governnment of Virginia has these branches:  judicial, executive, and -

He wrote the Declaration of Independence.

Maggie L. Walker was the first African American woman

The 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education ruling said:

The picture is an example of:

Virginia's American Indians are referred to as:

The time after the Civil War when the country was rebuilding is called:

Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson was important in which early Civil War battle?

One reason the colonists chose the Jamestown site was:

Who was the first African American governor in the US?

"Father of the Constitution"

The first legislative (law making) group in English America was:

The lawyer who was important in the Brown vs. Board of Education decision:

Captain John Smith forced the colonists of Jamestown to work in:

John Brown's raid was at:

What Indian language was spoken by the Monacan?

What did the charters allow the Virginia Company of London to do?

Who captured the capital of the Confederate States, Richmond?

Main industry in the Valley and Ridge:

What region is a source for many rivers?

What large body of water borders the Eastern Shore to the east?

Why did the western counties secede from Virginia?

Headquarters for Powhatan in 1607: