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Virginia Studies SOL Review 1

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What Virginia industry

increased the growth of

small towns by expanding

businesses, agriculture, and

other industries?

a)

shipbuilding

b)

tobacco farming

c)

railroads

d)

coal mining

2.

What was discovered in

Tazewell County?

a)

fertile soil for tobacco

farming

b)

coal deposits

c)

a new migration route

d)

a faster route across

the Appalachian

Mountains

3.

What Virginia industry

became important again

after the Civil War?

a)

produce

b)

tobacco

c)

technology

d)

shipbuilding

4.

As Virginia grew, so did the

need for more and better

a)

roads

b)

crops

c)

farms

d)

machines

5.

Segregation and

discrimination impacted

which of the following?

[check 3]

a)

housing

b)

employment

c)

tobacco farming

d)

education

e)

railroads

6.

What laws affected both

American Indians and

African Americans?

a)

Stamp Act

b)

Treaty of Paris

c)

Jim Crow

d)

Jamestown Charters

7.

Which were economic

problems after the Civil

War? [check 3]

a)

money had no value

b)

many farms had cash

crops

c)

banks were closed

d)

bridges and railroads

were destroyed

8.

What two steps were taken

to resolve problems caused

by the Civil War?

a)

Freedman’s Bureau

b)

moving west to find

better land for farming

c)

Sharecropping

d)

poll taxes

9.

Before the Civil War, the

South wanted all new states

to be—

a)

free states

b)

agricultural states

c)

industrial states

d)

slave states

10.

Which Virginian would have

worked for a compromise in

writing a new Constitution?

a)

George Mason

b)

James Madison

c)

George Washington

d)

Thomas Jefferson

11.

Why did Scots-Irish settlers

primarily made their homes

in the Shenandoah Valley?

a)

farming was easier

b)

it was along the

migration route

c)

it was too hard to cross

the Appalachian

d)

land was fertile

12.

Complete the analogy.

Northern States were to

industry as Southern States

were to __________.

a)

mining

b)

agriculture

c)

shipbuilding

d)

manufacturing

13.

Which Virginian is known for

inspiring other patriots by

saying “give me liberty or

give me death”?

a)

James Lafayette

b)

Patrick Henry

c)

Robert E. Lee

d)

Stonewall Jackson

14.

Who surveyed and explored

the Great Dismal Swamp?

a)

George Mason

b)

James Madison

c)

George Washington

d)

Captain John Smith

15.

Which city is located along

the Potomac River?

a)

Jamestown

b)

Yorktown

c)

Fredericksburg

d)

Alexandria

16.

If Marian was going to build a

house in Colonial Virginia, it

would most likely be a—

a)

mansion on a plantation

b)

one room house with dirt

floors

c)

two story house with

carpet

d)

longhouse

17.

Which is NOT an effect of

Jim Crow laws?

a)

races were segregated

b)

African Americans

faced discrimination

c)

Reconstruction

d)

poll taxes and unfair

voting tests

18.

During Reconstruction,

__________ began to have

power for the first time in

Virginia’s government.

a)

women

b)

American Indians

c)

Sharecroppers

d)

African Americans

19.

Jerry rents land and grows

crops. He pays rent to the

landowner with part of his

crops. This is an example of:

a)

Slavery

b)

Indentured service

c)

Sharecropping

d)

Co-farming

20.

Which agency provided

food, schools, and medical

care for freed African

Americans and others in

Virginia?

a)

Freedman’s Bureau

b)

Sharecroppers

c)

Reconstruction

d)

Jim Crow