Virginia Studies SOL Review 1

Why did Scots-Irish settlers primarily make their homes in the Shenandoah Valley?

• it was along the migration route

• it was a fertile farming area

• it had abundant natural resources

• it was a strategic military location

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 increased the growth of small towns by expanding businesses, agriculture, and other industries?

• railroads

• mining

• fishing

• textiles

Which Virginian would have worked for a compromise in writing a new Constitution?

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• James Madison

• Patrick Henry

What laws affected both American Indians and African Americans?

• Jim Crow

• Civil Rights Act

• Voting Rights Act

• Indian Removal Act

Which Virginian is known for inspiring other patriots by saying “give me liberty or give me death”?

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

• Patrick Henry

• James Madison

What Virginia industry became important again after the Civil War?

• tobacco

• cotton

• coal

• lumber

Which is NOT an effect of Jim Crow laws?

• Races were segregated

• African Americans faced discrimination

• Poll taxes and unfair voting tests

• Reconstruction

If Marian was going to build a house in Colonial Virginia, it would most likely be a—

• one room house with dirt floors

• two-story brick house with a basement

• large wooden mansion with multiple rooms

• thatched roof cottage with a garden

During Reconstruction, __________ began to have power for the first time in Virginia’s government.

• African Americans

• Women

• Native Americans

• Poor White Farmers