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WorksheetsVirginia Studies VS.7 a-c
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
Who led a slave revolt against plantation owners in Virginia?
Harriet Tubman
Nat Turner
John Brown
Robert E. Lee
Who participated in a secret route that escaped slaves took known as the "Underground Railroad"?
Harriet Tubman
Nat Turner
John Brown
Robert E. Lee
Who led a raid on the United States Armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia,0 trying to start a slave rebellion?
Harriet Tubman
Nat Turner
John Brown
Robert E. Lee
During the 1820s, what did northern states want new states created out of the western territory to be?
new states
slave states
free states
old states
The economy of the northern states was ___________, while the economy of the southern states was _____________.
agricultural
industrial
industrial
military
agricultural
military
industrial
agricultural
Abolitionists campaigned to end ___________.
agriculture
slavery
child labor
tobacco use
Who became President of the United States in 1860, after some southern states,0 including Virginia, seceded from the Union?
Jefferson Davis
Abraham Lincoln
Robert E. Lee
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
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?
North Carolina
Tennessee
West Virginia
Maryland
Where did Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson play a significant role?
Fredericksburg
Bull Run
(or Manassas)
Norfolk
Hampton
What was the capital of the Confederacy?
Washington, D.C.
Petersburg
Manassas
Richmond
Where did the battle of two ironclad ships take place in Virginia's waters?
Near Norfolk and hampton
Potomac River
New River
Rappahannock River
Who was the Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia who defeated Union troops at Fredericksburg, Virginia?
Ulyssess S. Grant
Abraham Lincoln
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Robert E. Lee
Where did Robert E. Lee surrender to Ulysses S. Grant in April 1865?
Washington, D.C.
Manassas, Virginia
Appomattox Court House, Virginia
Richmond, Virginia
What city was burned at the end of the Civil War?
Washington
Norfolk
Richmond
Alexandria
Most White Virginians supported the ___________.
Union
Continental Army
Confederacy
British
During the Civil War, most American Indians__________.
were neutral
fought with the Confederacy
fought with the Union
fought on both sides
