Building a New Nation

Which mountains in Virginia did settlers have to cross in order to get to the Cumberland Gap?

• Appalachian Mountains

• Mountains in Greece

• Coastal Plains (Tidewater) Mountains

• Rocky Mountains

This famous Virginian is best known for_

• writing the Constitution of the United States

• writing the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

• writing the Virginia Declaration of Rights

• writing the Declaration of Independence

Which document states that all Virginians should be free to worship as they please?

• Declaration of Independence

• Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

• Constitution of the United States

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

To cross the Appalachian Mountains, many settlers traveled through which area?

• Eastern Shore

• Great Dismal Swamp

• Cumberland Gap

• Chesapeake Bay

Which document states that all Virginians have many rights, including freedom of religion and freedom of the press?

• Declaration of Independence

• Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

• Virginia Company of London charter

Which of these documents was Thomas Jefferson involved in writing?

• Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

• Constitution of the United States

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

• Declaration of Independence

Since tobacco farming was hard on the soil, Virginian farmers-

• returned to Great Britain

• stopped farming

• raised cattle

• moved westward

Which effect belongs in the empty box?

• Many farmers became fisherman.

• Many farmers looked west for new land to farm.

• Most farmers planted corn instead of tobacco.

• Most farmers left Virginia.

How was the migration of Virginians influenced by tobacco farming after the Revolutionary War?

• They were moving to areas where tobacco taxes did not exist.

• Tobacco farming damaged the soil by taking away nutrients.

• Tobacco could be grown in the same location each year in the South.

• They were looking for small areas of land to grow tobacco.

Why did many Virginians move west and to the deep South?

• For new opportunities

• For religious freedom

• Overcrowding

• To find better farmland

• To avoid conflict with American Indians