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WorksheetsVirginia Regions Quiz
Total questions: 75
Worksheet time: 47mins
Which region is located in the easternmost part of Virginia?
Appalachian Plateau
Coastal Plain
Blue Ridge Mountains
Piedmont
What is the name of the region that includes the Fall Line?
Valley and Ridge
Appalachian Plateau
Piedmont
Blue Ridge Mountains
Which region is located to the west of the Blue Ridge Mountains?
Valley and Ridge
Coastal Plain
Piedmont
Appalachian Plateau
Which region is characterized by old, rounded mountains and is part of the Appalachian mountain system?
Coastal Plain (Tidewater)
Piedmont
Blue Ridge Mountains
Appalachian Plateau
Which region is known for its rolling hills and its name meaning 'land at the foot of the mountains'?
Valley and Ridge
Piedmont
Coastal Plain (Tidewater)
Appalachian Plateau
Which region includes valleys separated by ridges and the Great Valley of Virginia?
Blue Ridge Mountains
Coastal Plain (Tidewater)
Valley and Ridge
Appalachian Plateau
Which region is described as having flat land and includes the Eastern Shore?
Appalachian Plateau
Coastal Plain (Tidewater)
Piedmont
Blue Ridge Mountains
Which region is only a small part of the Appalachian Plateau located in Virginia?
Valley and Ridge
Blue Ridge Mountains
Appalachian Plateau
Piedmont
What is a characteristic of the Appalachian Plateau?
Old, rounded mountains
Flat on top
Rolling hills
Includes the Eastern Shore
Which region is a source of many rivers?
Blue Ridge Mountains
Coastal Plain (Tidewater)
Valley and Ridge
Appalachian Plateau
Which region includes the Great Valley of Virginia?
Piedmont
Valley and Ridge
Coastal Plain (Tidewater)
Appalachian Plateau
Which region is part of the Appalachian mountain system and has valleys separated by ridges?
Blue Ridge Mountains
Valley and Ridge
Coastal Plain (Tidewater)
Piedmont
Which region is characterized by flat land and includes the Eastern Shore?
Appalachian Plateau
Coastal Plain (Tidewater)
Blue Ridge Mountains
Valley and Ridge
Which of the following is the BEST title for the list below? [List of characteristics: - This was the first meeting of this legislative body - Called by the governor of Virginia - Representatives were called “Burgesses” - Gave settlers the opportunity to control their own government]
The Bill of Rights
The Virginia Company Charters
The General Assembly 1619
The General Assembly 1640
Why was James Madison known as the "Father of the Constitution"?
He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
He was the first President of the United States.
He played a key role in drafting and promoting the Constitution.
He discovered America.
Who wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights?
Thomas Jefferson
George Mason
James Madison
Patrick Henry
Which document was written by Thomas Jefferson?
Virginia Declaration of Rights
Both
Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
U.S. Constitution
Which document includes the right to protest?
Virginia Declaration of Rights
Both
Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
None
Which document includes freedom of the press?
Virginia Declaration of Rights
Both
Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
None
Which document includes freedom of religion, allowing people to worship as they please?
Virginia Declaration of Rights
Both
Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
None
Who supported the Underground Railroad to help enslaved African Americans escape to freedom?
Harriet Tubman
Elizabeth Van Lew
Nat Turner
John Brown
Who led a revolt against slavery in Virginia?
Harriet Tubman
Elizabeth Van Lew
Nat Turner
Robert Smalls
Who was an African American sailor and Union naval captain during the Civil War?
Harriet Tubman
Elizabeth Van Lew
Nat Turner
Robert Smalls
Who was the Union commander that captured Richmond, VA?
General Robert E. Lee
General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Abraham Lincoln
General Ulysses S. Grant
Who was elected president in 1860 and used the Union Navy to blockade southern ports?
General Robert E. Lee
General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Abraham Lincoln
General Ulysses S. Grant
Who accepted the surrender of Confederate Troops at Appomattox Courthouse?
General Robert E. Lee
General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Abraham Lincoln
General Ulysses S. Grant
During Reconstruction, African Americans began to have more rights and representation in government. What happened to those rights after Reconstruction with the passing of “Jim Crow” laws?
Rights were expanded further
Rights were maintained
Rights were reduced and limited
Rights were unaffected
What is the best title for the chart that includes providing food, public schools, and medical care, and is a federal government agency?
The Freedmen's Bureau
The Red Cross
The Department of Education
The Health Department
George Washington was known as (a) (b) (c)
Reconstruction is the period directly (a) the Civil War
What were two purposes of Reconstruction?
to punish the southern states for their role in the Civil War
to rebuild the country
to establish "Jim Crow" Laws
to bring formerly confederate states back into the United States
What is NOT true about Reconstruction?
It was a time of greater freedom and opportunities for Blacks, Indigenous, and other People of Color
It was a time when the government provided resources, including food, housing, schools, and medical care for freed African Americans and others.
It was a time when southern states seceded from the Union
It was a time when injustice, discrimination, and violence existed against newly freed African Americans and other People of Color
Check problems faced by Virginians during Reconstruction
Money had no value
Railroads, bridges, farms, crops, roads were destroyed
Banks were closed
Businesses needed to be rebuilt
African Americans and other People of Color faced violence and discrimination
Check problems faced by Virginians during Reconstruction
Money had no value
Railroads, bridges, farms, crops, roads were destroyed
Banks were closed
Businesses needed to be rebuilt
African Americans and other People of Color faced violence and discrimination
Check all that is true about John Mercer Langston
He was a famous doctor born in Virginia and educated in Ohio
He was an abolitionist who also recruited Blacks to serve in the Union Army
He was the first African American elected to the US Congress from Virginia
He was a lawyer and became the president of a college that came to be known as Virginia State University
(a) was a common practice after the Civil War, in which newly freed African Americans, People of Color, and poor Whites rented land from landowners by promising to pay with a share of crops grown on the land rented.
What is NOT true about Jim Crow Laws?
They ended racism and prejudice in the South
They kept racism alive by keeping discrimination, segregation, and other unfair treatment legal
They affected Blacks, Indigenous, and other People of Color
They effectively kept many Blacks, Indigenous, and other People of Color from voting and holding public offices with the use of poll taxes and voting tests
After the Civil War, _________ were responsible for many changes in transportation and the growth of cities
railroads
Poll Taxes
Freedmen's Bureau
airplanes
Railroads helped many parts of Virginia's economy grow, including
agriculture, due to the ease of transporting products throughout the country and world
cities, since small towns became larger around railroad stops
the shipping industry, since products could be brought to coastal cities and then shipped around the world
all of these
Segregation means
judging people unfairly
the belief that one dominant race is better than others
separating people based on differences, usually of race or religion
reconstruction
What is the CAUSE of these effects?
Jim Crow Laws
Reconstruction
Freedmen's Bureau
Railroads
(a) is the unfair difference in treatment of people.
After his election, this president went on to end slavery.
Jefferson Davis
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Word for states leaving the Union.
Confederacy
States' rights
Secession
Liberty
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
A public announcement Lincoln gave to free ALL slaves living in ALL states
An announcement where Lincoln proclaimed that all slaves living in the rebel states were free
A letter Lincoln wrote to Jefferson Davis surrendering to the Confederacy
A law added to the Constitution abolishing slavery in the US
The economy of the South was mainly ______________.
Industrial
Agricultural
rural
urban
What did Northern states want new states created out of the western territory to be?
New States
Free States
Slave States
Old States
What part of the country depended on slave labor?
East
West
South
North
The economy of the North was mainly ______________.
Industrial
Agricultural
Urban
Rurual
What did Southern states want new states created out of the western territory to be?
Free States
Slave States
Old States
New States
Which state was formed when conflict grew between the eastern counties that relied on slave labor and the western counties that favored the abolition of slavery?
Mayland
Tennessee
West Virginia
Kentucky
Who participated in a secret route that escaped slaves took known as the “Underground Railroad?”
John Brown
Nat Turner
Abraham Lincoln
Harriet Tubman
Who led a raid on the United States Armory at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, trying to start a slave rebellion?
John Brown
Nat Turner
Abraham Lincoln
Harriet Tubman
What was the first major battle of the Civil War that occurred in Virginia?
First Battle of Bull Run
Battle at Fredericksburg
Battle of Hampton Roads at See
Appomattox Courthouse
Which side of the country won the Battle at Fredericksburg?
Canada
Union
Mexico
Confederacy
What was the name of the battle that had two iron-clad ships fight to a draw?
First Battle of Bull Run
Battle at Fredericksburg
Battle of Hampton Roads at sea
Surrender at Appomattox
What capital was captured by U.S. Grant and was burned by retreating confederate soldiers?
Jamestown
Williamsburg
Bedfoard
Richmond
Where did the Civil War end?
Appomattox Courthouse
Williamsburg
Richmond
Petersburg
All of the following are true EXCEPT
Many American Indians did not take sides during the Civil War.
Most white Virginians supported the Confederacy.
The Confederacy DID NOT rely on enslaved African Americans.
Many enslaved African Americans sought freedom by following the Union Army.
Some free African Americans joined the Union Army and Union Navy.
At what battle of the Civil War did Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson earn his nickname?
Battle of Bull Run (or Manassas)
Battle of Yorktown
Battle of Appomattox
Battle of Gettysburg
What group of people campaigned to end slavery?
loyalists
patriots
abolitionists
plantation owners
