As Virginians moved west, they took their ... with them?
traditions, ideas, and cultures
Give some examples of "Jim
Crow Laws"
How did the change in Virginia's economy affect many farmers?
poll taxes, voting tests, and separate schools, restaurants, water fountains, and restrooms
Many farmers relocated to the western territories and also to the deep south to look for new and better farmland and more job opportunities.
How did the north and south view the admission of new states into the United
States?
As western territories began to enter the Union, the north wanted them to enter as "free states." The south wanted them to be "slave states."
How did Virginia's economic base change after the American Revolution?
Virginia's agricultural base began to change. Tobacco farming was hard on the soil.
How were most American Indians involved in the Civil War?
Most American Indians did not take sides during the Civil War.
How were most enslaved African
Americans involved in the Civil War?
How were most white Virginians involved in the Civil War?
How were some free African Americans involved in the Civil War?
In the years before the Civil War, how was the economy different in the north and south?
Enslaved African Americans were forced to continue to raise crops and provide labor for the Confederate Army.
Most white Virginians supported the Confederacy.
Some free African Americans felt their few civil rights would best be served by supporting the Confederacy.
The economy in the northern United States was industrialized, and in the south it was agricultural. The south relied on slave labor.

Many things people needed were destroyed in the war. Name 4 of them.
What are "Jim Crow Laws?" railroads, bridges, plantations, and crops
Laws created to keep political power away from African Americans.
What did the seceding southern states name themselves, and who was the
President of the Confederacy?
Confederate States of America (CSA)
Jefferson Davis
What happened after Lincoln was elected president in 1860?
Several southern states seceded and formed the Confederate States of America
(CSA). Virginia also seceded.
What is an abolitionist?
An abolitionist wants to abolish (end) slavery.
What is Reconstruction?
What is sharecropping?
Repairing the damage caused by the war.
A system in which freed men and poor white farmers rented land from a landowner and promised to pay the owner with a share of the crops.
What is the Freedmen's
Bureau?
What key sea battle between 2 ironclad ships took place in VA waters near
Norfolk and Hampton?
What needs did newly freed
African Americans have?
A government agency created to provide food, education, and medical care to
African Americans.
Monitor and Merrimack housing, education, clothing, food, and jobs

What part of Virginia formed the new state of West Virginia?
The western counties formed the state of West Virginia.
What was the capital of the
Confederacy during the Civil War?
Richmond
What was the capital of the
USA during the Civil War?
What was the main reason that some parts of Virginia wanted to form a new state?
What was the overall result of the Battle of Richmond in April 1865?
Washington, D.C.
They had different views on slavery. The western counties didn't believe in it, and the eastern counties needed slaves.
Grant captured Richmond.
What was the problem with money in the South?
Money had no value and banks were closed
What were the results of the sea battle of the Monitor and the Merrimack?
The battle was fought to a draw and it revolutionized naval warfare.
Where did settlers cross the Appalachian
Mountains when they migrated to new lands in the western territories?
through the Cumberland Gap
Where did the surrender ending the
Civil War take place?
Appomattox Court House, VA
Where was the first major clash of the Civil War in Virginia?
Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)

Who defeated Union troops at Fredericksburg, VA
Robert E. Lee
Who set fire to the armory in Richmond and why? What was a result of the fire?
The Confederates set fire to the armory so that the
Union troops wouldn't get the weapons. As a result, nearly half of Richmond burned to the ground.
Who surrendered to whom at the close of the Civil War?
Robert E. Lee surrendered to
Ulysses S. Grant
Who was Commander-in-Chief of the Confederate Army?
Who was Commander-in-
Chief of the Union army?
Who was Harriet Tubman?
Robert E. Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
She had been a slave but she had escaped to freedom.
She knew secret routes to help slaves gain freedom. It was known as the Underground Railroad.
Who was John Brown?
He was an abolitionist who led a slave rebellion by organizing a raid on the US Armory at Harper's
Ferry, VA. He was captured and hanged.
Who was Nat Turner?
He was a slave in Virginia. He and his small band of fellow slaves led a rebellion.
Abraham Lincoln Who was president of the
Union?
Who was the Confederate General who played a major role in the First Battle of
Bull Run (Manassas)?
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

Why were so many of the Civil War battles fought in Virginia?
The capital cities of Richmond, VA and
Washington, D.C. were relatively near each other.