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WorksheetsVirginia Studies SOL Review 1
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
What Virginia industry
increased the growth of
small towns by expanding
businesses, agriculture, and
other industries?
shipbuilding
tobacco farming
railroads
coal mining
What was discovered in
Tazewell County?
fertile soil for tobacco
farming
coal deposits
a new migration route
a faster route across
the Appalachian
Mountains
What Virginia industry
became important again
after the Civil War?
produce
tobacco
technology
shipbuilding
As Virginia grew, so did the
need for more and better
roads
crops
farms
machines
Segregation and
discrimination impacted
which of the following?
[check 3]
housing
employment
tobacco farming
education
railroads
What laws affected both
American Indians and
African Americans?
Stamp Act
Treaty of Paris
Jim Crow
Jamestown Charters
Which were economic
problems after the Civil
War? [check 3]
money had no value
many farms had cash
crops
banks were closed
bridges and railroads
were destroyed
What two steps were taken
to resolve problems caused
by the Civil War?
Freedman’s Bureau
moving west to find
better land for farming
Sharecropping
poll taxes
Before the Civil War, the
South wanted all new states
to be—
free states
agricultural states
industrial states
slave states
Which Virginian would have
worked for a compromise in
writing a new Constitution?
George Mason
James Madison
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Why did Scots-Irish settlers
primarily made their homes
in the Shenandoah Valley?
farming was easier
it was along the
migration route
it was too hard to cross
the Appalachian
land was fertile
Complete the analogy.
Northern States were to
industry as Southern States
were to __________.
mining
agriculture
shipbuilding
manufacturing
Which Virginian is known for
inspiring other patriots by
saying “give me liberty or
give me death”?
James Lafayette
Patrick Henry
Robert E. Lee
Stonewall Jackson
Who surveyed and explored
the Great Dismal Swamp?
George Mason
James Madison
George Washington
Captain John Smith
Which city is located along
the Potomac River?
Jamestown
Yorktown
Fredericksburg
Alexandria
If Marian was going to build a
house in Colonial Virginia, it
would most likely be a—
mansion on a plantation
one room house with dirt
floors
two story house with
carpet
longhouse
Which is NOT an effect of
Jim Crow laws?
races were segregated
African Americans
faced discrimination
Reconstruction
poll taxes and unfair
voting tests
During Reconstruction,
__________ began to have
power for the first time in
Virginia’s government.
women
American Indians
Sharecroppers
African Americans
Jerry rents land and grows
crops. He pays rent to the
landowner with part of his
crops. This is an example of:
Slavery
Indentured service
Sharecropping
Co-farming
Which agency provided
food, schools, and medical
care for freed African
Americans and others in
Virginia?
Freedman’s Bureau
Sharecroppers
Reconstruction
Jim Crow
