VA Social Studies SOL Review

What group established the town of Werowocomoco?

• English Settlers
• American Indians
• Spanish missionaries
• African Americans

People studying the past best learn about artifacts like these by ______.

• designing them on computers
• seeing them in newspapers
• digging at archaeological sites
• looking at colonial pictures

Which of these happened last?

• Settlers learned Survival skills from Powhatan and other native peoples.
• Native peoples saw the settlers as invaders taking their land.
• Settlers communicated with the native peoples through Pocahontas.
• Native peoples taught the settlers to plant corn and other crops.

What is the best example of cultural landscape?

• Tree
• Cow
• Barn
• Tractor

The arrival of European settlers changed the lives of American Indians by forcing _______,

• build new homes
• attend school
• move inland
• work on ships

The area of West Virginia became a state because ___.

• its people opposed slavery
• Abraham Lincoln was elected
• Its people supported women's suffrage
• John Brown caused a slave revolt

What large body of water borders the Eastern Shore to the east?

• Atlantic Ocean
• Pacific Ocean
• Chesapeake Bay
• James River

When Captain John Smith became the leader of the failing Jamestown Colony he began a forced-work program of _____.

• tobacco farming
• ship building
• road building
• agriculture

What region of Virginia is a source for many rivers?

• Coastal Plain (Tidewater)
• Appalachian Plateau
• Piedmont
• Blue Ridge Mountain

What lawyer and civil rights leader played an important role in the Brown v. Board of Education decision?

• Oliver W. Hill, Sr.
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Arthur R. Ashe, Jr.
• L. Douglas Wilder