Virginia Studies Review 1

What did Virginia's Indians use for clothing?

• tree bark

• leaves and vines

• Animal skins

• Cotton

What region of Virginia is located just west of the Fall Line and has rolling hills and fields?

• Coastal Plain

• Blue Ridge Mountains

• Piedmont

• Valley and Ridge

Which of the following events helped establish Jamestown as a permanent colony in Virginia?

• Caribbean plantation owners moved to Jamestown to grow tobacco.

• Additional women arrived from England to start families.

• Queen Elizabeth came for a royal visit to check on the General Assembly.

• The American Indians sent an ambassador to England to speak to the queen.

Most people in the Virginia colony lived----

• in large houses

• on plantations

• in one-room houses

• in mansions

George Washington provided leadership for the colonists by ---

• serving as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army

• writing the Declaration of Independence

• leading the British militia

• fighting against the American Indians

Settlers migrating west to new lands crossed the Appalachian Mountains through the---

• Great Valley of Virginia

• Appalachian Plateau

• Fall Line

• Cumberland Gap

A person who works to end slavery is called a(n)-

• abolitionist

• racist

• confederate

• loyalist

What was the period following the Civil War when Congress passed laws designed to rebuild the country and bring the southern states back into the Union?

• Revolution

• Freedman's Bureau

• Reconstruction

• Sharecropping

How did agriculture begin to change in the early twentieth century?

• Families started growing their own food.

• Farming technology improved.

• Crops were imported from overseas.

• Crop prices increased by double.

What natural border between the Coastal Plain (Tidewater) and the Piedmont prevents further travel on the river?

• Chesapeake Bay

• Eastern Shore

• James River

• Fall Line