Quiz 2 USVA SOL Practice

What were some of the "cash crops" grown in early Virginia and the Southern colonies for export to Europe?

• Rice

• Indigo

• Coffee

• Tobacco

What act repealed the Missouri Compromise in 1854?

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Homestead Act

• Dawes Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

Name two early Federalists.

• John Adams

• Alexander Hamilton

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Mason

The Middle Atlantic Region was mostly settled by which groups of people?

• Italians

• Germans

• Dutch

• English

Which constitutional amendment ensures all citizens the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous servitude?

• 13th

• 15th

• 18th

• 17th

Who believed that the Civil War was a "Second American Revolution"?

• Ulysses S. Grant

• Abraham Lincoln

• Jefferson Davis

• Robert E. Lee

Which of the early colonies maintained an allegiance to the Church of England, as well as closer social ties to England?

• Virginia

• Southern Colonies

• New England Colonies

• Middle Colonies

Who was the Union general who won victories over the South after several Union commanders had failed?

• George McClellan

• Ulysses S. Grant

• William Tecumseh Sherman

• George Custer

Lincoln's assassination allowed the ________ to influence the process of Reconstruction.

• Whigs

• Democrats

• Republicans

• Radical Republicans

What colony was the only one that did not attend the First Continental Congress?

• Virginia

• Georgia

• New York

• Pennsylvania