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This or That (Vocabulary)

Total questions: 62

Worksheet time: 31mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

the branch of the Virginia state government that makes state laws

a)

executive

b)

legislative

2.

someone elected to represent a division of the Virginia colony

a)

burgess

b)

president

3.

the plant that became a major cash crop in the Virginia Colony

a)

corn

b)

tobacco

4.

buying a good or service now and paying for it later

a)

savings

b)

credit

5.

the right to publish what you want

a)

freedom of the press

b)

freedom of religion

6.

an area of elevated land that is flat on top

a)

valley

b)

plateau

7.

money that has to be paid in order to vote

a)

poll tax

b)

stock

8.

documents signed by the King of England that allowed settlement in North America

a)

treaties

b)

charters

9.

the Union Monitor

a)

soldier

b)

ironclad ship

10.

an American Indian festival that teaches the public about American Indian culture

a)

tribe

b)

powwow

11.

someone who does not take sides during a conflict or war

a)

neutral

b)

loyal

12.

sending something to another state or country to sell

a)

export

b)

barter

13.

producing crops and raising livestock

a)

agriculture

b)

migration

14.

having to pay taxes without having a voice in the government

a)

taxation without representation

b)

sharecropping

15.

someone who works to end slavery

a)

abolitionist

b)

spy

16.

a policy to stop Virginia's schools from desegregating

a)

Massive Resistance

b)

economic venture

17.

material evidence that helps us learn about Virginia's native peoples

a)

artifact

b)

export

18.

Great Britain's lawmaking body

a)

General Assembly

b)

Parliament

19.

Virginia's Eastern Shore

a)

peninsula

b)

island

20.

Virginia's governor heads this branch of the state government

a)

executive

b)

judicial

21.

an unfair difference in how people are treated

a)

integration

b)

discrimination

22.

a mjor industry in Virginia that makes goods on a large scale

a)

service

b)

manufacturing

23.

representatives who wrote the Constitution of the United States

a)

presidents

b)

delegates

24.

the water in the Jamestown settlement

a)

contaminated

b)

industrialized

25.

renting land by promising to pay the landowner with a share of the crops

a)

modernizing

b)

sharecropping

26.

the document that explains how the United States government works

a)

Constitution

b)

Bill of Rights

27.

being forced to work agains your will

a)

neutral

b)

enslaved

28.

a crop that is mainly grown to sell for money

a)

cash crop

b)

sharecrop

29.

moving from one place to live in another

a)

migrating

b)

adapting

30.

a time of reguilding the United States after the Civil War

a)

Reconstruction

b)

Revolution

31.

exchanging good or services without using money

a)

debt

b)

barter

32.

Virginia's native peoples long ago made their homes from these

a)

natural resources

b)

motor vehicle parts

33.

people of all races can equally use public facilities

a)

integration

b)

segregation

34.

Virginia's native peoples long ago made their homes from these.

a)

natural resources

b)

motor vehicle parts

35.

something done in the hopes of making money

a)

economic venture

b)

independence

36.

settling a place in your country's name (though people may already live there)

a)

desegregation

b)

colonization

37.

laws passed by southern states that legally established segregation

a)

Jim Crow Laws

b)

New Deal

38.

someone who supported independence from Great Britain

a)

patriot

b)

loyalist

39.

Union ships did this to southern ports during the Civil War

a)

blockade

b)

compromise

40.

a period of difficult economic conditions worldwide that cost people jobs, homes, and businesses

a)

Great Depression

b)

Reconstruction

41.

someone who studies evidence left by people who lived long ago

a)

architect

b)

archaeologist

42.

this branch of Virginia's government decides if new laws agree with the state constitution

a)

legislative

b)

judicial

43.

farming equipment that lets farmers grow wheat with fewer workers

a)

mechanical reaper

b)

cotton gin

44.

soybeans, ships, milk, and trucks

a)

products

b)

services

45.

this led many enslaved people to seek refuge with the Union Army

a)

Treaty of Paris

b)

Contraband Decision

46.

a change made to the United States Constitution

a)

amendment

b)

economy

47.

what patriots fought for during the Revolutionary War

a)

industrialization

b)

independence

48.

the separation of people (usually based on race or religion)

a)

segregation

b)

integration

49.

a good or service you owe to someone

a)

barter

b)

debt

50.

being able to get jobs and make money

a)

freedom of religion

b)

economic opportunities

51.

these people paid for the settlement of Jamestown

a)

stockholders

b)

governors

52.

this officially ended the Revolutionary war

a)

Treaty of Paris

b)

New Deal

53.

a major Virginia industry in which people come to visit the state

a)

tourism

b)

communications

54.

Parliament and the colonists disagreed about this

a)

poll taxes

b)

authority to govern

55.

Parliament and the colonists disagreed about this

a)

poll taxes

b)

authority to govern

56.

a federal government program meant to help people during the Great Depression

a)

New Deal

b)

Massive Resistance

57.

some rich people in the Virginia colony (like merchants) lived here

a)

plantations

b)

territories

58.

Virginia's government

a)

Freedmen's Bureau

b)

General Assembly

59.

how goods and services are made, sold, and used in a certain place

a)

architecture

b)

economy

60.

animals raised or kept on a farm

a)

livestock

b)

capital resources

61.

a network of secret routes that enslaved African Americans used to escape to freedom

a)

Underground Railroad

b)

Fall Line

62.

a federal government agency that helped people after the Civil War

a)

House of Burgesses

b)

Freedmen's Bureau