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Virginia Studies: Review 3: Who am I?

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

I was the movement for women to gain the right to vote. What was I called?

a)

Great Depression

b)

Jim Crow Movement

c)

Suffrage Movement

d)

Reconstruction Movement

2.

I am the region with old-rounded mountains.  Many rivers start here.  Which region am I?

a)

Tidewater

b)

Valley and Ridge

c)

Piedmont

d)

Appalachian Plateau

e)

Blue Ridge

3.

I was the first African American ever to win a major tennis tournament.  I also spoke out for social change and was an author.  Who am I?

a)

Oliver W. Hill, Sr.

b)

Nat Turner

c)

L. Douglas Wilder

d)

Arthur Ashe, Jr.

4.

I am the government programs designed to help people during the Great Depression. What am I?

a)

Suffrage movement

b)

Freedman's Bureau

c)

Welfare

d)

New Deal

5.

I was what happened in July of 1861. What am I?

a)

Nat Turner's raid

b)

Civil War ends at Appomattox Court House

c)

Cotton Gin is invented

d)

The first major battle of the Civil War

6.

I am the region with rolling hills.  I am west of the Fall Line.  My name means “land at the foot of the mountains”. Who am I?

a)

Tidewater

b)

Valley and Ridge

c)

Piedmont

d)

Appalachian Plateau

e)

Blue Ridge

7.

TEI:

We settled mainly in the Piedmont and Tidewater regions, where there was lots of tobacco farming.  Which two cultures are we?

a)

Scots-Irish

b)

Germans

c)

English

d)

American Indians

e)

Africans

8.

I am a region located in Southwest Virginia.  I am an area of elevated land that is flat on top.  What region am I?

a)

Tidewater

b)

Valley and Ridge

c)

Piedmont

d)

Appalachian Plateau

e)

Blue Ridge

9.

Before the Civil War, the economy of the north was based on me.  What am I?

a)

Manufacturing

b)

Agricultural

10.

I am the tribe that spoke the Siouan language. Which tribe am I?

a)

Monacan

b)

Cherokee

c)

Powhatan

11.

I was a machine that allowed farmers to grow more wheat with fewer workers.  What machine am I?

a)

cotton gin

b)

tractor

c)

mechanical reaper

12.

As governor of Virginia, I was known for my “pay as you go” policy for road improvements. Who am I?

a)

L. Douglas Wilder

b)

A. Linwood Holton

c)

Harry F. Byrd, Sr.

d)

Patrick Henry

13.

I am the season that Native peoples hunted and lived off food stored from the previous fall.  Which season am I?

a)

summer

b)

winter

c)

fall

d)

spring

14.

TEI:

I am what the colonist traded with the Powhatans for food.  What am I

a)

copper for jewelry

b)

machines

c)

pots

d)

tools

e)

food

15.

Yorktown is located on me.  Which river am I?

a)

James

b)

Rappahannock

c)

Potomac

d)

York

16.

I am what Native Peoples made clothing out of.  What am I?

a)

cotton

b)

animal skins

c)

woven reeds

17.

I am things that are man made that tell about how people from the past lived. What am I?

a)

longhouses

b)

artifacts

c)

rementants

18.

I am the county that the 11 states who seceded or left the Union formed.  What country am I?

a)

United States of American

b)

Confederate States of America

19.

I served as a spy for the Continental Army. After the war I successfully requested my freedom.  Who am I?

a)

James Madison

b)

James Lafayette

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

Nat Turner

20.

I flow into the Chesapeake Bay.  Alexandria is located on me.  Which river am I?

a)

Potomac

b)

James

c)

York

d)

Rappahannock

21.

I am where the Confederates surrendered to the Union at the end of the

Civil War.   Where am I?

a)

Yorktown

b)

Richmond

c)

Appomattox Courthouse

d)

Washington, D.C.

22.

I am the branch of Virginia’s government that decides court cases and if Virginia’s laws agree with Virginia’s Constitution.  Which branch of government am I?

a)

Judicial Branch

b)

Executive Branch

c)

Legislative Branch

23.

I am surrounded by the Dismal Swamp.  What am I?

a)

Chesapeake Bay

b)

Mountain Lake

c)

Lake Drummond

d)

Lake Anna

24.

As governor of Virginia, I modernized Virginia’s government.  Who am I?

a)

Harry F. Byrd, Sr.

b)

A. Linwood Holton

c)

L. Douglas Wilder

d)

Patrick Henry

25.

TEI:

I am what the native peoples traded to the colonists.  What am I?

a)

tools

b)

fur

c)

copper

d)

food

e)

leather