Virginia Studies SOL review

I led a raid on the United States Armory at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. I was trying to start a slave rebellion. I was captured and hanged. Who am I?

• John Brown

• Frederick Douglass

• Nat Turner

• Harriet Tubman

The Virginia Declaration of Rights states that all Virginians have certain rights, including ____.

• freedom of speech and assembly

• freedom of religion and freedom of the press

• right to bear arms and own property

• freedom from taxation without representation

After the Civil War, sharecropping developed mainly because ___?

• farmers could not pay workers

• landowners wanted to increase profits

• there was a surplus of labor

• the government mandated it

As a result of Brown v. Board of Education, all public schools ___?

• were ordered to integrate

• were allowed to segregate

• were required to close

• were mandated to remain separate

Which of the following is something Maggie L. Walker did?

• became a newspaper editor

• started a bank and became its president

• created jobs for black women by opening a grocery store

• became governor of Virginia

This city was known as a railroad center.

• Roanoke

• Richmond

• Charlottesville

• Norfolk

Which word or phrase does NOT describe relative location?

• near

• bordering

• next to

• going to

The Virginia colony depended on agriculture as a source of--

• wealth

• trade

• industry

• mining

If you are standing on the Fall Line looking north, which direction must you travel to get to the Appalachian Plateau?

• East

• West

• South

• North

This picture shows how the Indians got food in the ___.

• winter

• summer

• fall

• spring