VS.7 Review Questions

Who led a slave revolt against plantation owners in Virginia?

• A Harriet Tubman

• B Nat Turner

• C John Brown

• D Robert E. Lee

Who participated in a secret route that escaped slaves took known as the “Underground Railroad”?

• Harriet Tubman

• Nat Turner

• John Brown

• Robert E. Lee

Who led a raid on the United States Armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia trying to start a slave rebellion?

• Harriet Tubman

• Nat Turner

• Robert E. Lee

• John Brown

During the 1820s, what did northern states want new states created out of the western territory to be?

• new states

• slave states

• free states

• old states

Who became President of the United States in 1860, after some southern states including Virginia, seceded from the Union?

• Jefferson Davis

• Abraham Lincoln

• Robert E. Lee

• Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson

Which state was formed when conflict grew between the eastern counties that relied on slave labor and the western counties that favored the abolition of slavery?

• North Carolina

• Tennessee

• West Virginia

• Maryland

Where did Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson play a major role?

• Bull Run (or Manassas)

• Norfolk

• Hampton

• Fredericksburg

What was the capital of the Confederacy?

• Richmond

• Manassas

• Petersburg

• Washington, D.C.

Where did the battle of two ironclad ships take place in Virginia’s waters?

• Rappahannock River

• New River

• Potomac River

• Hampton Roads

Who was the Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia and defeated Union troops at Fredericksburg, Virginia?

• Robert E. Lee

• Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson

• Abraham Lincoln

• Ulysses S. Grant