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Virginia Studies VS.7 a-c

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who led a slave revolt against plantation owners in Virginia?

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Nat Turner

c)

John Brown

d)

Robert E. Lee

2.

Who participated in a secret route that escaped slaves took known as the "Underground Railroad"?

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Nat Turner

c)

John Brown

d)

Robert E. Lee

3.

Who led a raid on the United States Armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia,0 trying to start a slave rebellion?

a)

Harriet Tubman

b)

Nat Turner

c)

John Brown

d)

Robert E. Lee

4.

During the 1820s, what did northern states want new states created out of the western territory to be?

a)

new states

b)

slave states

c)

free states

d)

old states

5.

The economy of the northern states was ___________, while the economy of the southern states was _____________.

a)

agricultural

industrial

b)

industrial

military

c)

agricultural

military

d)

industrial

agricultural

6.

Abolitionists campaigned to end ___________.

a)

agriculture

b)

slavery

c)

child labor

d)

tobacco use

7.

Who became President of the United States in 1860, after some southern states,0 including Virginia, seceded from the Union?

a)

Jefferson Davis

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Robert E. Lee

d)

Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

8.

Which state was formed when conflict grew between the eastern counties that relied on slave labor and the western counties that favored the abolition of slavery?

a)

North Carolina

b)

Tennessee

c)

West Virginia

d)

Maryland

9.

Where did Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson play a significant role?

a)

Fredericksburg

b)

Bull Run

(or Manassas)

c)

Norfolk

d)

Hampton

10.

What was the capital of the Confederacy?

a)

Washington, D.C.

b)

Petersburg

c)

Manassas

d)

Richmond

11.

Where did the battle of two ironclad ships take place in Virginia's waters?

a)

Near Norfolk and hampton

b)

Potomac River

c)

New River

d)

Rappahannock River

12.

Who was the Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia who defeated Union troops at Fredericksburg, Virginia?

a)

Ulyssess S. Grant

b)

Abraham Lincoln

c)

Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

d)

Robert E. Lee

13.

Where did Robert E. Lee surrender to Ulysses S. Grant in April 1865?

a)

Washington, D.C.

b)

Manassas, Virginia

c)

Appomattox Court House, Virginia

d)

Richmond, Virginia

14.

What city was burned at the end of the Civil War?

a)

Washington

b)

Norfolk

c)

Richmond

d)

Alexandria

15.

Most White Virginians supported the ___________.

a)

Union

b)

Continental Army

c)

Confederacy

d)

British

16.

During the Civil War, most American Indians__________.

a)

were neutral

b)

fought with the Confederacy

c)

fought with the Union

d)

fought on both sides