WorksheetsVirginia Studies - Important People
Total questions: 33
Worksheet time: 1hrs 6mins
Who had strong leadership at Jamestown and started trading relationships at with the Native Americans?
John Rolfe
George Washington
John Smith
Pocahontas
Who served as the contact between the English and the Powhatan at Jamestown?
John Smith
Pocahontas
John Rolfe
Chief Powhatan
Who was the leader of the Powhatan tribe?
Pocahontas
John Smith
Chief Powhatan
John Rolfe
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
George Mason
Patrick Henry
Who provided military leadership and served as the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army?
George Mason
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Patrick Henry
Who spoke out against taxation without representation by saying "give me liberty or give me death?"
Thomas Jefferson
James Lafayette
George Mason
Patrick Henry
Who was a French nobleman who volunteered in the Continental Army and gave James Lafayette his freedom after the Revolutionary War?
Marquis de Lafayette
Patrick Henry
James Armistead
Thomas Jefferson
Who had permission to grant charters to establish a colony in North America?
John Smith
King James
John Rolfe
Christopher Newport
Who was an enslaved African American that was a spy in the Continental Army?
Marquis de Lafayette
James Lafayette
Patrick Henry
Thomas Jefferson
Who was known as the "Father of Our Country?"
George Washington
James Madison
Thomas Jefferson
George Mason
Who was known as the "Father of the Constitution?"
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
George Washington
George Mason
Who kept detailed notes during the Constitutional Convention and was skilled at compromise?
James Madison
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
George Mason
Who wrote the Declaration of Rights stating that all Virginians have rights including the freedom of religion and freedom of the press?
Thomas Jefferson
George Mason
James Madison
George Washington
Who wrote the Virginia Statue of Freedom stating that all should be free to worship as they please?
Thomas Jefferson
George Mason
James Madsion
George Washington
Who led a revolt on slavery in Virginia?
Harriet Tubman
Nat Turner
James Lafayette
James Brown
Who was an abolitionist who helped enslaved African Americans escape the south on the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
James Lafayette
Nat Turner
James Brown
Who led a raid on the United States Armory at Harpers Ferry?
James Brown
Nat Turner
Harriet Tubman
James Lafayette
Who was elected president of the United States in 1860, causing some southern states to secede from the Union?
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
Who was a Confederate General in the Civil War that surrendered to the Union Army at Appomattox Court House?
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
Stonewall Jackson
Abraham Lincoln
Who was a Confederate General who played a major role in the Confederate victory at Bull Run?
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Ulysses S. Grant
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Who was the Union General during the Civil War?
Ulysses S. Grant
Robert E. Lee
Stonewall Jackson
Abraham Lincoln
Who was a nurse in the Civil War that later created the American Red Cross?
Clara Barton
Elizabeth Van Lew
Harriet Tubman
Maggie Walker
Who was an African American spy for the Union Army during the Civil War?
Mary Bowser
Harriet Tubman
Clara Barton
Robert Smalls
Who was an African American sailor and Union Navy captain during the Civil War?
Robert Smalls
MAry Bowser
Abraham Lincoln
Stonewall Jackson
Who was an abolitionist who worked as a spy during the Civil War?
Elizabeth Van Lew
Maggie Walker
Harriet Tubman
Clara Barton
Who led a student strike against segregation in Farmville, Virginia in 1951?
Barbara Johns
Maggie Walker
Harry F. Byrd
Oliver W. Hill
Who was the first African American women to establish a bank and become a bank president?
Clara Barton
Barbara Johns
Maggie Walker
Harriet Tubman
Who is known for his "pay as you go" policy for road improvements?
Harry F. Byrd
Oliver W. Hill
Arthur Ashe
Linwood Holton
Who established a policy of Massive Resistance that fought to resist desegregation of public schools?
Oliver W. Hill
Linwood Holton
Arthur Ashe
Harry F. Byrd
Who was a lawyer and civil rights leader that played a key role in Brown vs. Board of Education?
Harry F. Byrd
Oliver W. Hill
Linwood Holton
Douglas Wilder
Who was the first African American winner of a men's tennis singles championship?
Oliver W. Hill
Harry F. Byrd
Linwood Holton
Arthur Ashe
Who was the governor of Virginia who appointed more African Americans and women to government positions in Virginia?
Harry F. Byrd
Linwood Holton
Douglas Wilder
Arthur Ashe
Who was the first African American to be elected state governor of Virginia?
Oliver W. Hill
Douglas Wilder
Linwood Holton
Arthur Ashe
