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Q1: What can be described using terms that show connections between two places such as “next to,” “near,” “bordering?” (relative location)

Q2: Jamestown was primarily what kind of venture? (economic)

Q3: Who is known as the Father of Our Country? (George Washington)

1, 2, 3Q1: Which 2 bodies of water border

Virginia? (Atlantic Ocean and the Chesapeake Bay)

Q2: Who financed the settlement of Jamestown? (the stockholders of the Virginia Company of London)

Q3: Who kept detailed notes at the Constitutional Convention? (James Madison)

1, 2, 3Q1: The natural border between the Coastal Plain

(Tidewater) and Piedmont regions, where waterfalls prevent further travel on the river is called what? (The Fall Line)

Q2: An American settlement at Jamestown settlement would furnish England with what? (raw materials)

Q3: Who is known as the Father of the Constitution because he helped the delegates compromise? (James Madison)

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Q1: Which Virginia region has mostly flat land? (Coastal Plain)

Q2: What became the first permanent English settlement in the New World? (Jamestown)

Q3: Who wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights? (George Mason)

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Q1: Which region has a name that means “land at the foot of the mountains?” (Piedmont)

Q2: Today, Jamestown is located on a what? (Island)

Q3: What document became the basis for the Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the United States of America.? (Virginia Declaration of Rights)

1, 2, 3Q1: Which Virginia region has rolling hills?

(Piedmont)

Q2: The location of Jamestown could be easily defended from attack by sea from which country? (Spain)

Q3: What document was the basis for the First

Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America, the amendment that protects religious freedom? (Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom)

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Q1: Which region has old, rounded mountains? (Blue Ridge Mountains)

Q2: The water along the shore of Jamestown was deep enough for ships to do what? (dock)

Q3: After the American Revolution, many Virginians moved south and west to find what two things? (better farmland and new opportunities)

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Q1: The Blue Ridge Mountains are part of which mountain system? (Appalachian Mountains)

Q2: The Jamestown settlers believed they had a good supply of fresh what? (water)

Q3: What kind of farming was hard on the soil, causing many farmers to look west and south for new land to farm? (tobacco farming)

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Q1: The Blue Ridge Mountain region is located between which two regions? (Piedmont and the Valley and Ridge)

Q2: Who granted charters to the Virginia Company of London? (King of England)

Q3: Settlers crossed the Appalachian Mountains through the what? (Cumberland Gap)

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Q1: Which region is the source of many rivers? (Blue Ridge Mountains)

Q2: The charters established what kind of rights to the colonists at Jamestown? (English)

Q3: The North and South were unable to resolve their conflicts because of what kind of differences? (economic)

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Q1: The valleys in the Valley and Ridge region are separated by what? (ridges)

Q2: In what year did the governor call a meeting of the first Virginia Assembly? (1619)

Q3: Virginians were divided about secession from the Union, which led to the creation of what new state? (West Virginia)

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Q1: The Great Valley of Virginia is located in which region? (The Valley and Ridge)

Q2: Citizen representatives in Jamestown were called what? (burgesses)

Q3: Who led a revolt against plantation owners in Virginia? (Nat Turner)

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Q1: Which region borders the Blue Ridge Mountains to the west? (Valley and Ridge)

Q2: What 3 groups made up the first Virginia Assembly? (Governor, governor’s council, burgesses)

Q3: People who campaign to end slavery are called what? (abolitionists)

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Q1: An area of elevated land that is flat on top is called a what? (plateau)

Q2: During Jamestown, only who were considered citizens? (adult males)

Q3: Who supported a secret route that escaped slaves took? (Harriet Tubman)

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Q1: Which region is located in Southwest Virginia? (Appalachian Plateau)

Q2: In what decade did the Virginia House of Burgesses become a separate legislative body? (1640s)

Q3: Who led a raid on the United States Armory (Arsenal) at Harpers Ferry, Virginia? (John Brown)

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Q1: Only a small part of this region is located in Virginia. (Appalachian Plateau)

Q2:What was the first elected legislative body in America, giving settlers the opportunity to control their own government? (House of Burgesses)

Q3: What happened when Abraham Lincoln became president? (many states seceded from the Union)

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Q1: A piece of land bordered by water on three sides is called what? (peninsula)

Q2: The House of Burgesses became the what? (General Assembly of Virginia)

Q3: Conflict grew between the eastern and western regions of Virginia. Which region favored slavery and which did not? (eastern= slavery; western = no slavery)

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Q1: What ocean provided transportation links between Virginia and other places? (Atlantic Ocean)

Q2: The arrival of who in 1620 made it possible for the settlers to establish families and a more permanent settlement at Jamestown? (women)

Q3: The first major clash of the Civil War was which battle? (1st Battle of Bull Run, or Manassas)

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Q1: What water feature provided a safe harbor in the early history of Virginia? (Chesapeake Bay)

Q2: How did Africans arrive in Jamestown? (against their will)

Q3: Which general played a major roll in the first Battle of Bull Run? (Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson)

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Q1: Many early Virginia cities developed along the what? (Fall Line)

Q2: The first Africans were baptized as Christians and labeled as what? (indentured servants)

Q3: Who defeated Union troops at Fredericksburg? (General Robert E. Lee)

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Q1: Rivers flow downhill to the what? (sea or bay)

Q2: The arrival of Africans made it possible to expand what economy? (tobacco)

Q3: Who was the Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia? (Robert E. Lee)

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Q1: The four major rivers that flow into the Chesapeake Bay are separated by what? (peninsulas)

Q2: The Jamestown settlers found out they lacked safe what? (drinking water)

Q3: What was the capital of the Confederacy in the Civil War? (Richmond)

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Q1: What separates the Eastern Shore from the mainland of Virginia? (Chesapeake Bay)

Q2: The Jamestown settlers lacked many skills necessary to do what? (survive)

Q3: What happened to Richmond near the end of the Civil War? (It was burned by General Grant)

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Q1: Which two cities are located on the James River? (Jamestown, Richmond)

Q2: Many Jamestown settlers died of what? (starvation and disease)

Q3: What did Lincoln use the Union navy to do? (Blockade Southern ports)

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Q1: Which city is located on the York River? (Yorktown)

Q2: John Smith believed in what kind of agriculture? (self-sustaining)

Q3: Who won in the battle of the Monitor and the Merrimack? (neither)

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Q1: If you visit the city of Alexandria, you will probably see which river? (Potomac)

Q2: Who initiated trading between the settlers and the Powhatan? (John Smith)

Q3: The battle of the Monitor and the Merrimack was fought in waters near which two cities? (Norfolk and Hampton)

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Q1: If you visit the city of Fredericksburg, which river will you probably see? (Rappahannock)

Q2: What did the American Indians trade to the English? (food, furs, and leathers)

Q3: When did the Civil War end? (April 1865)

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Q1: Give three examples of artifacts that tell a lot about the early Americans who lived in Virginia (arrowheads, pottery, tools)

Q2: What did the English trade to the Powhatan? (tools, pots, and guns)

Q3: Who surrendered at Appomattox Court House? (Robert E Lee)

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Q1: What was spoken primarily in the Tidewater region: Siouan, Algonquian, or Iroquoian? (Algonquian)

Q2: Who believed the Powhatan and the settlers could live in harmony? (Pocahontas)

Q3: Where did General Lee surrender to General Grant? (Appomattox Court House)

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Q1: In which region was Siouan mostly spoken? (Piedmont)

Q2: What two crops did the Powhatan introduce to the English that helped the English survive? (corn and tobacco)

Q3: The period following the Civil War in which Congress passed laws designed to rebuild the country and bring the southern states back into the Union was called what? (Reconstruction)

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Q1: The Powhatan spoke which language? (Algonquian)

Q2: The Powhatan eventually saw the colonists as what? (invaders who would take over their land)

Q3: What kinds of things were destroyed after the Civil War? (Railroads, bridges, plantations, and crops)

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Q1: What was spoken in Southwestern Virginia and in Southern Virginia near what is today North Carolina? (Iroquoian)

Q2: What is a crop that is grown to sell for money rather than for use by the growers? (cash crop)

Q3: What happened to Virginian banks after the Civil War? (They were closed)

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Q1: What language did the Cherokee primarily speak? (Iroquoian)

Q2: The economy of the Virginia colony depended on what as a primary source of wealth? (agriculture or tobacco)

Q3: What was wrong with Virginia money after the Civil War? (It had no value)

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Q1: The Eastern Woodland Indians are from which state? (Virginia)

Q2: What became the most profitable cash crop in Virginia? (tobacco)

Q3: The government agency that provided food, schools, and medical care for freed slaves and others in Virginia and the rest of the South was called what? (The Freedmen’s Bureau)

1, 2, 3Q1: The kinds of food American Indians ate, the

clothing they wore, and the shelters they had depended upon the what? (seasons)

Q2: Large numbers of Africans were brought to the colony against their will to work as slaves on what? (plantations)

Q3: What was the system common in Virginia after the war in which freedmen and poor white farmers rented land from a landowner by promising to pay the owner with a share of the crop? (Sharecropping)

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Q1: What did the First Americans eat in the winter? (birds and animals they hunted)

Q2: Because of tobacco, the Virginia colony became dependent on what? (slave labor)

Q3: What is the separation of people,

usually based on race or religion? (segregation)

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Q1: When did the First Americans eat berries and fish? (Spring)

Q2: Give 3 examples of cultural landscapes. (barns, homes, churches)

Q3: An unfair difference in the treatment of people is called what? (discrimination)

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Q1: What kind of crops did the First Americans grow in the summer? (corn, beans, and squash)

Q2: The name “Richmond” comes from which language? (English)

Q3: After Reconstruction, the gains that the African Americans had won were lost when what laws were enacted? (Jim Crow Laws)

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Q1: When did the First American harvest their crops? (Fall)

Q2: The name “Roanoke” comes from which language? (American Indian)

Q3: What two things did the Jim Crow Laws use to keep African Americans from voting? (poll taxes and reading tests)

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Q1: What was used for clothing by the First Americans in Virginia? (deerskin)

Q2: The English settled primarily in which two regions? (Tidewater and Piedmont)

Q3: What laws said that African Americans had to use separate water fountains and go to separate schools? (Jim Crow Laws)

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Q1: Which Virginia region has seafood? (Coastal Plains/Tidewater)

Q2: The Germans and Scotch-Irish settled primarily along the migration route in which valley? (Shenandoah)

Q3: After Reconstruction, what were a key to the expansion of business, agriculture, and industry? (Railroads)

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Q1: Which Virginia region has federal military installations? (Coastal Plains/Tidewater)

Q2: Africans settled primarily in which two regions? (Coastal Plains/Tidewater, Piedmont)

Q3: Where were coal deposits found after Reconstruction? (Tazewell County, Southwestern Virginia)

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Q1: Which Virginia region has a textile industry? (Piedmont)

Q2: Africans settled primarily in which regions? (Coastal Plains/Tidewater, Piedmont, and Appalachian Plateau)

Q3: What crop became important again in Virginia after Reconstruction? (Tobacco)

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Q1: Which Virginia region has coal mining? (Appalachian Plateau)

Q2: True or False: Colonial Virginia had banks. (False)

Q3: Since the end of World War II, Northern Virginia has experienced growth due to increases in what kind of jobs? (federal government)

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Q1: Which Virginia region has poultry and apples? (Valley and Ridge)

Q2: Which crop was used as money in Virginia? (tobacco)

Q3: Both Northern Virginia and the Tidewater region have grown due to what kind of industry? (Computer technology)

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Q1: Which Virginia region has information technology products? (Piedmont)

Q2: The colonies thought they should not be taxed by Parliament because they had no what? (representation)

Q3: What is the abolishment of racial segregation? (desegregation)

1, 2, 3Q1: Which two Virginia regions grow apples as a

major product? (Blue Ridge Mountains, Valley and Ridge)

Q2: What document states that authority to govern belongs to the people rather than to kings? (Declaration of Independence)

Q3: In what case did The U.S. Supreme Court rule in 1954 that “separate but equal” public schools were unconstitutional? (Brown vs. Board of Education)

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Q1: Which two Virginia regions have farming as a major industry? (Piedmont, Valley and Ridge)

Q2: What was the name of the slave who served in the Continental Army and won his freedom? (James Armistead Lafayette)

Q3: What was the name of the policy in which Virginia’s government fought to “resist” the integration of public schools? (Massive Resistance)

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Q1: Which region has the federal and state government? (Piedmont)

Q2: Who inspired colonists from other states by speaking out against representation without taxation? (Patrick Henry)

Q3: Who was the first African American woman to become a bank president in the United States? (Maggie L. Walker)

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Q1: Which Virginia region is known for its tobacco products? (Piedmont)

Q2: Where did the English surrender to the Patriots to end the American Revolution? (Yorktown)

Q3: Who was the governor who was known for a “Pay As You Go” policy for road improvements, and modernized Virginia state government? (Harry F. Byrd, Sr.)

1, 2, 3Q1: Which region is known for its shipbuilding

industry? (Coastal Plains/Tidewater)

Q2: Who said “…give me liberty or give me death?” during the time of the American Revolution? (Patrick Henry)

Q3: The General Assembly is the legislative branch of the Virginia government that makes state laws and is divided into two parts. What are these two parts? (the Senate and the House of Delegates)

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Q1: Name the resources and industries of the Blue Ridge Mountain region. (apples, recreation)

Q2: Who helped delegates compromise at the Constitutional Convention? (James Madison)

Q3: Who was the first African American winner of a major men’s tennis singles championship? (Arthur Ashe)

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Q1: Which region has tourism as one of its major industries? (Coastal Plains/Tidewater)

Q2: What document says that all people should have rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? (Declaration of Rights)

Q3: Who heads the executive branch of the state government? (the governor)

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Q1: What states border Virginia? (West Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky)

Q2: Parliament believed it had the right to do what to the colonies? (Tax them)

Q3: Which branch of Virginia government makes sure that state laws are carried out? (the executive)

1, 2, 3Q1: The Potomac River provides a border

between Virginia and what other state? (Maryland)

Q2: What two documents did Thomas Jefferson write? (Declaration of Rights and Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom)

Q3: Which branch of Virginia government decides cases about people accused of breaking the law and whether or not a law agrees with Virginia’s constitution? (the judicial)