Post on 01-Apr-2015
4th Grade Virginia Studies Review
Are you up for the challenge?
People and Documents
1. Who spoke out against taxation without representation
by saying, “Give me liberty of give me death”? a) James Madison
b) Thomas Jefferson
c) Patrick Henry
d) George Washington
2. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
a) James Madison
b) Thomas Jefferson
c) George Washington
d) George Mason
3. Which document, written by James Madison,
states how our country will run?
a) Declaration of Independence
b) Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
c) Bill of Rights
d) Constitution
4. Who wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights, stating that Virginians should have rights such as the freedom of religion and the freedom of
press? a) George Mason
b) Thomas Jefferson
c) James Monroe
d) Patrick Henry
5. The Virginia Declaration of Rights was the
basis for which document?
a) Constitution
b) Declaration of Independence
c) Virginia Statue for Religious Freedom
d) Bill of Rights
6. Who wrote the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom, stating that people have the freedom to worship who
they please? a) Thomas Jefferson
b) George Mason
c) James Madison
d) George Washington
7. The first 10 amendments to the Constitution are also
known as the: a) Declaration of Independence
b) Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom
c) Bill of Rights
d) Constitution
8. Which document starts out with the phrase,
“We the People”?
a) Declaration of Independence
b) Virginia Statue of Religious Freedom
c) Bill of Rights
d) Constitution
The Revolutionary War
9. Who was the commander-in-chief of the
Continental Army?
a) General Cornwalis
b) James Armistead Lafayette
c) George Washington
d) James Madison
10. Who was a slave and a spy that served in the Continental Army and given freedom after the
war? a) Patrick Henry
b) James Armistead Lafayette
c) Thomas Jefferson
d) James Madison
11. Where did the English surrender?
a) New York
b) Yorktown
c) Jamestown
d) Richmond
12. Which of the following is NOT a reason the
Revolutionary War was fought? a) Taxation without representation
b) The colonists could not manufacture their own goods.
c) The population was moving westward.
d) The colonists felt they had no voice in the Parliament
13. Virginians who were loyal to England were
called _____________.
a) Patriots
b) Loyalists
c) Confederates
d) English
The Civil War
14. When new states from western territorieswanted to join the U.S., the northern states wanted
them to be what kind of states? a) Free states
b) Slave states
c) Confederate states
d) Loyal states
15. Which group of states seceded from the U.S.
after President Lincoln’s election?
a) Northern states
b) Southern states
c) Free states
d) Loyal states
16. An abolitionist is someone who --
a) Fought in the Civil War
b) Wanted more slaves
c) Wanted the war to end
d) Wanted slavery to end
17. Who was an important Confederate leader during the battle of Bull Run?
a) Jefferson Davis
b) Robert E. Lee
c) General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
d) Ulysses S. Grant
18. Who led the Union Army during the Civil War?
a) Jefferson Davis
b) Robert E. Lee
c) General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
d) Ulysses S. Grant
19. Who led the Confederate Army during the Civil War?
a) Ulysses S. Grant
b) Jefferson Davis
c) General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
d) Robert E. Lee
20. Who won the sea battle that took place between two ships off of Virginia’s coast?
a) It was a draw
b) Monitor
c) Merrimack
d) Titanic
21. To whom did General Lee surrender to at Appomattox Courthouse to end the Civil War?
a) General George Washington
b) General Ulysses S. Grant
c) J. E. B. Stuart
d) Jefferson Davis
First English Settlement
22. Who financed the settlement at Jamestown?
a) King James of London
b) Mayflower Company
c) Virginia Company of London
d) Tobacco Company
23. In the 1600s, the only citizens who could vote were --
a) Indentured servants
b) African people
c) Adult men
d) Powhatan Indians
24. Where was the first permanent English
settlement in North America?
a) Williamsburg
b) Richmond
c) Jamestown
d) Hampton
25. Who granted the charters to colonize North
America?
a) Captain John Smith
b) King of England
c) Virginia Company of London
d) Powhatan
26. When did Jamestown become the first permanent
English settlement? a) 1607
b) 1609
c) 1619
d) 1620
27. Which Native American group traded food
with the settlers?
a) Cherokee
b) Chicahominy
c) Aztec
d) Powhatan
28. Which hardship below did the settlers face?
a) Starvation and disease
b) No money to purchase items they needed
c) No guns for defense
d) Not enough boats for fishing
29. What was the impact of the arrival of women
to the Jamestown settlement? a) To help with tobacco farming
b) To establish families
c) To sew ripped clothes
d) To build new homes for the colonists
30. African Americans who came to Jamestownand worked for 5-7 years, then earned their
freedom were called --
a) Slaves
b) Indentured servants
c) Butlers
d) Abolitionists
The Branches Of Government
31. The first elected legislative body in America
was the ___________.
a) House of Burgesses
b) Congress of the United States
c) Parliament of England
d) Virginia Company of London
32. The House of Burgesses later became and
continues today as the ______________.
a) Governor’s Council
b) General Assembly
c) United Nations
d) House of Commons
33. Governor Tim Kaine is the head of the ______ branch of Virginia’s government.
a) legislative
b) judicial
c) executive
d) None of the above
34. The ________ branch of Virginia’s government
makes laws. a) legislative
b) executive
c) judicial
d) None of the above
35. The state courts and the state supreme courts are all
part of the branch of Virginia’s government. a) legislative
b) executive
c) judicial
d) None of the above
36. The _______ branch of Virginia’s government is headed by the General Assembly.
a) legislative
b) judicial
c) executive
d) None of the above
37. The two parts of the General Assembly are
the ________.
a) Senate and House of Superiors
b) Governor and senate
c) Legislative and judicial
d) Senate and House of Delegates
Great Review Today!
You’ve learned a LOT about
Virginia this year!