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Virginia Studies Year End Review

Total questions: 34

Worksheet time: 1hrs 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which group established the town of Werowocomoco?

a)

American Indians

b)

English settlers

c)

Spanish missionaries

d)

African Americans

2.

People studying the past best learn about artifacts like these by —

a)

designing them on computers

b)

looking at colonial pictures

c)

seeing them in newspapers

d)

digging at archaeological sites

3.

Which of these happened last?

a)

Settlers communicated with the native peoples through Pocahontas.

b)

Native peoples saw the settlers as invaders taking their land.

c)

Settlers learned survival skills from Powhatan and other native peoples.

d)

Native peoples taught the settlers to plant corn and other crops.

4.

What is the best example of a cultural landscape?

a)

Tree

b)

Tractor

c)

Cow

d)

Barn

5.

The arrival of European settlers changed the lives of American Indians by forcing them to —

a)

move inland

b)

build new houses

c)

work on ships

d)

attend school

6.

The area of West Virginia became a state because —

a)

John Brown caused a slave revolt

b)

its people supported women's suffrage

c)

its people opposed slavery

d)

Abraham Lincoln was elected

7.

Which number marks the region where the first English settlement in Virginia was located?

a)

3

b)

2

c)

1

d)

4

8.

Author of the Virginia Statue for Religious Freedom, served as Governor during the Revolutionary War, and served in Continental Congress. Which Virginian is responsible for these contributions?

a)

James Madison

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

George Washington

d)

Patrick Henry

9.

Which group's traditional homeland was located in the Coastal Plain (Tidewater) region of Virginia?

a)

Lakota

b)

Powhatan

c)

African

d)

English

10.

Edmund: "I think we should stay loyal to the king." Joshua: "I think we should form our own nation." Which statement about these two Virginians is probably true?

a)

They had different opinions about African-American slavery.

b)

Only on led soldiers in the colonies.

c)

Only one paid taxes in the colonies.

d)

They took opposite sides in the American Revolution.

11.

Which group would most likely have supported this type of meeting?

a)

Confederate soldiers

b)

Industrialists

c)

Abolitionists

d)

Plantation owners

12.

Which newspaper headline describes the result of the battle between the Merrimack and the Monitor?

a)

b)

c)

d)

13.

--Maintaining farms and plantations

---Providing labor for the military

During the Civil War, which group did this work for the Confederate states?

a)

Southern abolitionists

b)

New European immigrants

c)

American Indians

d)

Enslaved African Americans

14.

Which Virginia governor is known for the "Pay As You Go" road improvement policy?

a)

Mills E. Godwin, Jr.

b)

A. Linwood Holton

c)

L. Douglas Wilder

d)

Harry F. Byrd, Sr.

15.

Which region completes this diagram?

a)

Coastal Plain (Tidewater)

b)

Valley and Ridge

c)

Blue Ridge Mountains

d)

Piedmont

16.

A settler in Richmond who wanted to return to Europe would travel on which river?

a)

James

b)

Roanoke

c)

Potomac

d)

Shenandoah

17.

Which body of water separates the Eastern Shore from the Virginia mainland?

a)

Atlantic Ocean

b)

James River

c)

Chesapeake Bay

d)

Potomac River

18.

Mari lives in Virginia near the North Carolina border. She is writing a history report on the native peoples that lived near her home and spoke an Iroquoian language. Which American Indians will be described in Mari's report?

a)

Cherokee

b)

Monacan

c)

Powhatan

d)

Pamunkey

19.

The best title for this diagram is —

a)

The Reasons to Defend Jamestown From Spain

b)

The Importance of Rivers to the Virginia Settlement

c)

Why Jamestown Colonists Moved West

d)

Why American Indians Lived in Virginia

20.

The first settlers founded Jamestown on —

a)

an isthmus

b)

an island

c)

a strait

d)

a peninsula

21.

Refer to the diagram titled "Virginia and Bordering States". Where did many Virginians settle after traveling through the Cumberland Gap?

a)

1 and 2

b)

3 and 4

c)

2 and 4

d)

1 and 3

22.

What was the result of this event?

a)

Colonists leave the Chesapeake Bay area

b)

City rebuilt near Werowocomoco

c)

Colonists join the local American Indian tribe

d)

Capital moved to Williamsburg

23.

The charters of the Virginia Company of London gave —

a)

English rights to the colonists

b)

religious freedom to slaves

c)

property rights to women

d)

land to the American Indians

24.

Which phrase best completes this diagram?

a)

had the right to govern themselves

b)

should own English land

c)

should have an English king

d)

had the right to own slaves

25.

Which group completes this table?

a)

Wealthy families

b)

Local assemblies

c)

Earliest settlers

d)

Royal governors

26.

After Reconstruction, the freedoms given to African Americans were —

a)

voted against by Congress

b)

changed by the Supreme Court

c)

taken away by the Jim Crow Laws

d)

increased by the Bill of Rights

27.

If John Montgomery wins this election, his job will be to —

a)

gather taxes for the state

b)

make laws for the state

c)

judge which laws are constitutional

d)

decide which people go to court

28.

As a result of the Civil Rights Movement, laws were passed that —

a)

made racial discrimination illegal

b)

made child labor illegal

c)

gave immigrants the right to work

d)

gave women the right to vote

29.

Maria is a guide for visitors to a history museum. Maria works in the —

a)

agriculture industry

b)

tourism industry

c)

transportation industry

d)

manufacturing industry

30.

Which factor would persuade people to move from Location 1 to Location 2?

a)

Job opportunities

b)

Cleaner air

c)

Smaller populations

d)

Religious freedom

31.

What is the best title for this picture?

a)

Exchanging Goods for Services

b)

Saving Goods for Later Use

c)

Bartering in the Colonies

d)

Buying on credit

32.

What best replaces the question mark?

a)

Military bases

b)

Factories

c)

Coal mines

d)

Farms

33.

Why was the Freedmen's Bureau created?

a)

To help new immigrants

b)

To help southern soldiers

c)

To help former slaves

d)

To help plantation owners

34.

Which industry has contributed most to migration within modern Virginia?

a)

Agriculture

b)

Transportation

c)

Mining

d)

Medicine