Colonial Virginia: CBG EP

What document did George Mason write?

• Declaration of

  Independence

• Virginia Statute of

  Religious freedom

• Virginia Declaration of Rights

• None of these.

Who wrote the Virginia Statute for Religious freedom

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Mason

• George Washington

• James Madison

Who earned the nickname Father of the Constitution.

• George Mason

• George Washington

• James Madison

• Thomas Jefferson

Who earned the nickname Father of Our Country

• George Washington

• James Madison

• George Mason

• Thomas Jefferson

Why did Colonial Farmers move west and south?

• Tobacco was hard on soil

• They could not use the mechanical reaper on the soil.

• There was a better place in the west and south to sell at.

• None of these

Who invented the cotton gin?

• George Franklin

• Eli Whitney

• James Madison

• George Mason

Who Created the Mechanical Reaper?

• Cyrus McCormick

• James Madison

• George Mason

• George Washington