New Nation: VA Studies

Whose name completes the sentence?

__________ is the father of the Constitution and skilled at compromise.

• Thomas Jefferson

• Patrick Henry

• George Washington

• James Madison

Which document begins, "We the people..."

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

• Bill of Rights

• Constitution of the United States of America

Who is the father of our Country?

• George Washington

• James Madison

• Abraham Lincoln

• Thomas Jefferson

Who was the first president of the United States?

• James Madison

• George Washington

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

George Mason is best known for...

• writing the Constitution of the United States.

• writing the Declaration of Independence.

• writing the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom.

• writing the Virginia Declaration of Rights.

In what order were these documents written?

1. Constitution of the United States
2. Declaration of Independence
3. Virginia Company of London Charter

• 2, 1, 3

• 3, 1, 2

• 1, 2, 3

• 3, 2, 1

Which document states that all Virginians have many rights, including freedom of press and religion?

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

• Declaration of Independence

• Virginia Company of London

• Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom

Since tobacco farming was hard on the soil, Virginian farmers

• raised cattle

• moved westward

• returned to Great Britian

• stopped farming

Settlers traveled through the Cumberland Gap in order to cross the

• Appalachian Mtns

• Chesapeake Bay

• Piedmont

• Great Dismal Swamp

All of the following are reasons settlers migrated to the western frontier of Virginia EXCEPT

• cotton would not grow in the soil, causing many Virginians to look for new land to farm.

• settlers crossed the Appalachian Mountains through the Cumberland Gap as they migrated westward.

• Virginians were seeking new opportunities in the western territories.

• Virginians were looking for large areas of land to settle and farm.