VA Studies practice for SOL test

Maggie L. Walker was the first African American woman

"Father of the Constitution"

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

John Brown's raid was at:

Who captured the capital of the Confederate States, Richmond?

What is sharecropping?

What did George Mason write?

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

England hoped the colony would:

He wrote the Declaration of Independence.

Why did businesses and cities grow after Reconstruction?

Headquarters for Powhatan in 1607:

What region is a source for many rivers?

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

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

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

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

Why was slavery not popular in the north?

What Indian language was spoken by the Monacan?

In which region did the Scots-Irish settle?

Main industry in the Valley and Ridge:

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

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

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

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

One reason the colonists chose the Jamestown site was:

What battle ended the American Revolution?

Name one reason Jamestown colonists died of starvation and disease.

Why did the western counties secede from Virginia?

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

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

Virginia's American Indians are referred to as:

The 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education ruling said:

Who was the first African American governor in the US?

The Civil War ended at:

The picture is an example of: