Race #4
1) The Colonists and British Parliament
disagreed over how the colonists should
be _______________.
governed
2) Parliament believed it had the right to
tax the colonies, while colonists believed
they should not be taxed because they
had ____ _____________ in Parliament.
no representation
3) _________ ____________ provided
military leadership by serving as
Commander-in-Chief of the Continental
Army. He also was the first president of
the United States of America.
George Washington
4) _________ __________ provided political
leadership by expressing the reasons for
colonial independence from Great
Britain when he wrote the Declaration of
Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
5) ___________ __________ inspired patriots
from other colonies when he spoke out
against taxation without representation
by saying “…give me liberty or give me
death.”
Patrick Henry
6) _________ _________ , an enslaved
African American from Virginia, served in
the Continental Army and successfully
requested his freedom after the war.
James Lafayette
7) Virginians who remained loyal to Great
Britain were called?
loyalists
8) Virginians who fought in the Continental
Army were called?
patriots
9) __________ _________ fought on both
sides hoping to be free once the war was
over.
African Americans
10) _________ _________ fought alongside
the Virginia patriots, while others fought
with the British.
American Indians
11) The Battle of _________ ________ was
the first land battle of the American
Revolution fought in Virginia. The
American victory forced the British
colonial governor to flee the City of
Norfolk.
Great Bridge
12) ________ ________ rode on horseback
through the backwoods of Virginia to
Charlottesville to warn Thomas Jefferson,
then the governor of Virginia, that the
British were coming to arrest him and
members of the General Assembly.
Jack Jouett
13) The American Victory at ___________
resulted in the surrender of the British
army, which led to the end of the war.
Yorktown
14) Who is referred to as the “Father of the
Constitution?” He was a Virginian, who
believed in the importance of having a
United States Constitution. He kept
detailed notes during the Constitutional
Convention.
James Madison
15) The Virginia Declaration of Rights was
written by whom?
George Mason
16) The Virginia Statute for Religious
Freedom states that all people should be
free to worship as they please. Who
wrote this document?
Thomas Jefferson
17) What are the three branches of
government in Virginia?
Executive branch
Legislative branch
Judicial branch
18) The ___________ ___________ is the
legislative branch of the Virginia
Government that makes state laws. It is
divided into two parts called ________
and _________.
General Assembly
Senate and House of Delegates
19) The ________ heads the executive
branch of the state government. The
executive branch makes sure that state
laws are carried out.
governor
20) The ________ ________ is the state’s
court system. This branch decides cases
about people accused of breaking the
law and whether or not a law agrees
with Virginia's Constitution.
Judicial branch
21) After the American Revolution, many
Virginians moved ________ and to the
deep _____ in search of better farmland
and new opportunities.
west and south
19) Settlers crossed the Appalachian
Mountains through the ___________
______ as they migrated to new lands in
the west.
Cumberland Gap
22) The economy in the northern part of
the United States was more ____________,
while in the southern part, it was
__________ and relied more on slave
labor.
industrialized, agricultural
23) Northern states wanted the new states
created out the western territories to be
“________ _________,” while the southern
states wanted the new states to be
“_______ _________.”
free states
slave states
24) _________ __________ led a revolt
against plantation owners in Virginia.
Nat Turner
25) _________ __________ supported a
secret route that escaped enslaved
African Americans took; it became
known as the “Underground Railroad.”
Harriet Tubman
26) ________ ________ led a raid on the
United States Armory at Harpers Ferry,
Virginia.
John Brown
27) After Abraham Lincoln was elected
president, many southern states ________
from the Union and formed the
“Confederate States of America.”
seceded
28) Conflict grew between the eastern and
western counties of Virginia that relied
on slavery and the western counties that
did not favor slavery. This disagreement
led to the formation of which state?
West Virginia
29) The ______ _________ ___ ____ ______
was the first major clash of the Civil War.
First Battle of Bull Run
30) ___________ ________ __ ________,
defeated Union troops at Fredericksburg,
Virginia.
General Robert E. Lee
31) ________ was the capital of the
Confederacy.
Richmond
32) Richmond fell to General _____ __ _____
and was burned near the end of the war.
Ulysses S. Grant
33) The Civil War ended at ___________
_______ _______where Confederate
general Robert E. Lee surrendered his
army to Union general Ulysses S. Grant
on April 1865.
Appomattox Court House