Virginia Studies VS.7 a-c

Who led a slave revolt against plantation owners in Virginia?

• Harriet Tubman

• Nat Turner

• John Brown

• Robert E. Lee

Who participated in a secret route that escaped slaves took known as the "Underground Railroad"?

• Harriet Tubman

• Nat Turner

• John Brown

• Robert E. Lee

Who led a raid on the United States Armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia,0 trying to start a slave rebellion?

• Harriet Tubman

• Nat Turner

• John Brown

• Robert E. Lee

During the 1820s, what did northern states want new states created out of the western territory to be?

• new states

• slave states

• free states

• old states

The economy of the northern states was ___________, while the economy of the southern states was _____________.

• agricultural

  industrial

• industrial

  military

• agricultural

  military

• industrial

  agricultural

Abolitionists campaigned to end ___________.

• agriculture

• slavery

• child labor

• tobacco use

Who became President of the United States in 1860, after some southern states,0 including Virginia, seceded from the Union?

• Jefferson Davis

• Abraham Lincoln

• Robert E. Lee

• Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

Which state was formed when conflict grew between the eastern counties that relied on slave labor and the western counties that favored the abolition of slavery?

• North Carolina

• Tennessee

• West Virginia

• Maryland

Where did Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson play a significant role?

• Fredericksburg

• Bull Run

  (or Manassas)

• Norfolk

• Hampton

What was the capital of the Confederacy?

• Washington, D.C.

• Petersburg

• Manassas

• Richmond