Virginia

Question 1

Why did Christopher Columbus call the people he found in the lands he discovered Indians?

Answer 1

Because he thought he was in the Indies (near China).

Question 2

What language did the Indians speak that lived in the Coastal Plain (Tidewater) Region?

Answer 2

Algonquian

Question 3

What did the Eastern Woodland Indians use to make clothes?

Answer 3

Deerskin

Question 4

Why were Virginia’s Indians referred to

as the Eastern Woodlands Indians?

Answer 4

Virginia’s Indians are referred to as Eastern Woodland Indians, due to the forests which cover most of the land.

Question 5

What did the Eastern Woodland Indians make their houses out of?

Answer 5

Shelter was made from materials around them mainly wood and bark.

Question 6

Which region is west of the Fall Line?

Answer 6

The Piedmont Region

Question 7

Which region is east of the Fall Line?

Answer 7

Coastal Plain (Tidewater)

Question 8

Which region is located west of the Blue Ridge Mountain

Answer 8

Valley and Ridge

Question 9

Which region is located in southwest Virginia?

Answer 9

Appalachian Plateau

Question 10

Which region consists of old rounded mountains and is the source of many rivers?

Answer 10

Blue Ridge Mountains

Question 11

What did some southern states do after Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the United States?

Answer 11

They seceded from the Union and formed the Confederate States of American

Question 12

Who wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights?

Answer 12

George Mason

Question 13

Who persuaded Chief Powhatan to provide food to the starving Jamestown colonists?

Answer 13

Pocahontas

Question 14

Who was the Union General that captured and burned Richmond during the Civil War?

Answer 14

General Ulysses S. Grant

Question 15

Who was the first President of the United States?

Answer 15

George Washington

Question 16

What effect did the arrival of women in 1620 have on the Jamestown Colony?

Answer 16

Made it possible for the settlers to establish families and a more permanent settlement at Jamestown

Question 17

Who financed the settlement of Jamestown?

Answer 17

The stockholders of the Virginia Company of London

Question 18

The Powhatans traded food, furs and leather with the English. What products did the English trade with the Powhatans ?

Answer 18

Tools, Pots, Guns

Question 19

What were the reasons for the location of the Jamestown Colony?

Answer 19

The location could be easily defended from attack by sea by the Spanish.
The water along the shore was deep enough for ships to dock.
Believed to be a good supply of fresh water.

Question 20

Why was Jamestown established?

Answer 20

As an economic venture

Question 21

What southwestern Virginia city became an important Railroad Center during the Reconstruction Era?

Answer 21

Roanoke

Question 22

What became a source of livelihood for residents of southwest Virginia during the Reconstruction Era?

Answer 22

Coal Mining

Question 23

What government agency provided food, schools and medical care for freed slaves and others in Virginia and the rest of the south?

Answer 23

Freedman’s Bureau

Question 24

How did Sharecroppers pay for the land they rented

Answer 24

By promising to pay the owner with a share of the crop they raised

Question 25

What were two measures taken to resolve some of the problems in Virginia during Reconstruction?

Answer 25

The establishment of the Freedmen’s Bureau and sharecropping.

Question 26

What document became the basis for the First Amendment to the United States Constitution?

Answer 26

Virginia Statue for Religious Freedom