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Virginia Studies - Important People

Total questions: 33

Worksheet time: 1hrs 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who had strong leadership at Jamestown and started trading relationships at with the Native Americans?

a)

John Rolfe

b)

George Washington

c)

John Smith

d)

Pocahontas

2.

Who served as the contact between the English and the Powhatan at Jamestown?

a)

John Smith

b)

Pocahontas

c)

John Rolfe

d)

Chief Powhatan

3.

Who was the leader of the Powhatan tribe?

a)

Pocahontas

b)

John Smith

c)

Chief Powhatan

d)

John Rolfe

4.

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

a)

George Washington

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

George Mason

d)

Patrick Henry

5.

Who provided military leadership and served as the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army?

a)

George Mason

b)

George Washington

c)

Thomas Jefferson

d)

Patrick Henry

6.

Who spoke out against taxation without representation by saying "give me liberty or give me death?"

a)

Thomas Jefferson

b)

James Lafayette

c)

George Mason

d)

Patrick Henry

7.

Who was a French nobleman who volunteered in the Continental Army and gave James Lafayette his freedom after the Revolutionary War?

a)

Marquis de Lafayette

b)

Patrick Henry

c)

James Armistead

d)

Thomas Jefferson

8.

Who had permission to grant charters to establish a colony in North America?

a)

John Smith

b)

King James

c)

John Rolfe

d)

Christopher Newport

9.

Who was an enslaved African American that was a spy in the Continental Army?

a)

Marquis de Lafayette

b)

James Lafayette

c)

Patrick Henry

d)

Thomas Jefferson

10.

Who was known as the "Father of Our Country?"

a)

George Washington

b)

James Madison

c)

Thomas Jefferson

d)

George Mason

11.

Who was known as the "Father of the Constitution?"

a)

Thomas Jefferson

b)

James Madison

c)

George Washington

d)

George Mason

12.

Who kept detailed notes during the Constitutional Convention and was skilled at compromise?

a)

James Madison

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

George Washington

d)

George Mason

13.

Who wrote the Declaration of Rights stating that all Virginians have rights including the freedom of religion and freedom of the press?

a)

Thomas Jefferson

b)

George Mason

c)

James Madison

d)

George Washington

14.

Who wrote the Virginia Statue of Freedom stating that all should be free to worship as they please?

a)

Thomas Jefferson

b)

George Mason

c)

James Madsion

d)

George Washington

15.

Who led a revolt on slavery in Virginia?

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Nat Turner

c)

James Lafayette

d)

James Brown

16.

Who was an abolitionist who helped enslaved African Americans escape the south on the Underground Railroad?

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

James Lafayette

c)

Nat Turner

d)

James Brown

17.

Who led a raid on the United States Armory at Harpers Ferry?

a)

James Brown

b)

Nat Turner

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

James Lafayette

18.

Who was elected president of the United States in 1860, causing some southern states to secede from the Union?

a)

Abraham Lincoln

b)

George Washington

c)

Ulysses S. Grant

d)

Robert E. Lee

19.

Who was a Confederate General in the Civil War that surrendered to the Union Army at Appomattox Court House?

a)

Robert E. Lee

b)

Ulysses S. Grant

c)

Stonewall Jackson

d)

Abraham Lincoln

20.

Who was a Confederate General who played a major role in the Confederate victory at Bull Run?

a)

Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

b)

Ulysses S. Grant

c)

George Washington

d)

Abraham Lincoln

21.

Who was the Union General during the Civil War?

a)

Ulysses S. Grant

b)

Robert E. Lee

c)

Stonewall Jackson

d)

Abraham Lincoln

22.

Who was a nurse in the Civil War that later created the American Red Cross?

a)

Clara Barton

b)

Elizabeth Van Lew

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

Maggie Walker

23.

Who was an African American spy for the Union Army during the Civil War?

a)

Mary Bowser

b)

Harriet Tubman

c)

Clara Barton

d)

Robert Smalls

24.

Who was an African American sailor and Union Navy captain during the Civil War?

a)

Robert Smalls

b)

MAry Bowser

c)

Abraham Lincoln

d)

Stonewall Jackson

25.

Who was an abolitionist who worked as a spy during the Civil War?

a)

Elizabeth Van Lew

b)

Maggie Walker

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

Clara Barton

26.

Who led a student strike against segregation in Farmville, Virginia in 1951?

a)

Barbara Johns

b)

Maggie Walker

c)

Harry F. Byrd

d)

Oliver W. Hill

27.

Who was the first African American women to establish a bank and become a bank president?

a)

Clara Barton

b)

Barbara Johns

c)

Maggie Walker

d)

Harriet Tubman

28.

Who is known for his "pay as you go" policy for road improvements?

a)

Harry F. Byrd

b)

Oliver W. Hill

c)

Arthur Ashe

d)

Linwood Holton

29.

Who established a policy of Massive Resistance that fought to resist desegregation of public schools?

a)

Oliver W. Hill

b)

Linwood Holton

c)

Arthur Ashe

d)

Harry F. Byrd

30.

Who was a lawyer and civil rights leader that played a key role in Brown vs. Board of Education?

a)

Harry F. Byrd

b)

Oliver W. Hill

c)

Linwood Holton

d)

Douglas Wilder

31.

Who was the first African American winner of a men's tennis singles championship?

a)

Oliver W. Hill

b)

Harry F. Byrd

c)

Linwood Holton

d)

Arthur Ashe

32.

Who was the governor of Virginia who appointed more African Americans and women to government positions in Virginia?

a)

Harry F. Byrd

b)

Linwood Holton

c)

Douglas Wilder

d)

Arthur Ashe

33.

Who was the first African American to be elected state governor of Virginia?

a)

Oliver W. Hill

b)

Douglas Wilder

c)

Linwood Holton

d)

Arthur Ashe