Virginia Studies SOL Review 1

What Virginia industry

increased the growth of

small towns by expanding

businesses, agriculture, and

other industries?

• shipbuilding

• tobacco farming

• railroads

• coal mining

What was discovered in

Tazewell County?

• fertile soil for tobacco

  farming

• coal deposits

• a new migration route

• a faster route across

  the Appalachian

  Mountains

What Virginia industry

became important again

after the Civil War?

• produce

• tobacco

• technology

• shipbuilding

As Virginia grew, so did the

need for more and better

• roads

• crops

• farms

• machines

Segregation and

discrimination impacted

which of the following?

[check 3]

• housing

• employment

• tobacco farming

• education

• railroads

What laws affected both

American Indians and

African Americans?

• Stamp Act

• Treaty of Paris

• Jim Crow

• Jamestown Charters

Which were economic

problems after the Civil

War? [check 3]

• money had no value

• many farms had cash

  crops

• banks were closed

• bridges and railroads

  were destroyed

What two steps were taken

to resolve problems caused

by the Civil War?

• Freedman’s Bureau

• moving west to find

  better land for farming

• Sharecropping

• poll taxes

Before the Civil War, the

South wanted all new states

to be—

• free states

• agricultural states

• industrial states

• slave states

Which Virginian would have

worked for a compromise in

writing a new Constitution?

• George Mason

• James Madison

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson