Virginia Studies Year End Review

Which group established the town of Werowocomoco?

• American Indians

• English settlers

• Spanish missionaries

• African Americans

People studying the past best learn about artifacts like these by —

• designing them on computers

• looking at colonial pictures

• seeing them in newspapers

• digging at archaeological sites

Which of these happened last?

• Settlers communicated with the native peoples through Pocahontas.

• Native peoples saw the settlers as invaders taking their land.

• Settlers learned survival skills from Powhatan and other native peoples.

• Native peoples taught the settlers to plant corn and other crops.

What is the best example of a cultural landscape?

• Tree

• Tractor

• Cow

• Barn

The arrival of European settlers changed the lives of American Indians by forcing them to —

• move inland

• build new houses

• work on ships

• attend school

The area of West Virginia became a state because —

• John Brown caused a slave revolt

• its people supported women's suffrage

• its people opposed slavery

• Abraham Lincoln was elected

Which number marks the region where the first English settlement in Virginia was located?

• 3

• 2

• 1

• 4

Author of the Virginia Statue for Religious Freedom, served as Governor during the Revolutionary War, and served in Continental Congress. Which Virginian is responsible for these contributions?

• James Madison

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

• Patrick Henry

Which group's traditional homeland was located in the Coastal Plain (Tidewater) region of Virginia?

• Lakota

• Powhatan

• African

• English

Edmund: "I think we should stay loyal to the king." Joshua: "I think we should form our own nation." Which statement about these two Virginians is probably true?

• They had different opinions about African-American slavery.

• Only on led soldiers in the colonies.

• Only one paid taxes in the colonies.

• They took opposite sides in the American Revolution.