Early Virginia Test Review

"Sic Semper Tyrannis" means _______________.

"Thus always to tyrants"

Which States border with Virginia?

- Kentucky - Tennessee - West Virginia - Maryland - North Carolina

Match the Native American people group with its primary area of occupation.

-Coastal Plain= Algonquian -Piedmont and Blue Ridge= Siouan -Western and Southeast Virginia= Iroquoian

In 1624, King James I revoked the Virginia Company's charter and made Virginia a royal colony because ________________.

-Continual issues with local natives -high mortality rates -complaints that the investors were not seeing dividends

What difficulties did the settlers encounter at Jamestown?

-Disease spread quickly -The Powhatan Indians attacked -Their supplies quickly dwindled

Virginians justified using African slave labor because _________________.

-They were already enslaved -They were a different race

Name three reasons England became interested in establishing colonies under Elizabeth I.

-To remedy a shortage of land in England due to primogeniture -To provide haven for problematic groups opposed to the Anglican Church -To check the growing power of the Spanish

According to the 2013 census, Virginia is the ________ largest state.

12th

The first Africans arrived in Virginia in ___________.

1619

In __________, King James revoked the Virginia Company's charter and made Virginia a royal colony.

1624

The Virginia Convention of __________ established the official state flag of Virginia

1776

The headright system gave ____________ acres to anyone who paid his own way for passage to Virginia and an additional __________ acres for each settler he brought over.

50/50

Virginia has been the birthplace of _______ presidents.

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The Constitution of 1971

Aligned Virginia's laws to federal legislation and court decisions

The transition from indentured servitude to slavery as a source of labor was a primary result of __________ ____________.

Bacon's Rebellion

According to the lesson, Pocahontas' rescue of John Smith was probably ______________.

Ceremonial

The book of Old Dominion, New Commonwealth, states Virginia lost its influence in the nineteenth century because ______________________.

It joined the Confederacy

Why did poor whites in Virginia support slavery?

It was the thing that allowed them to remain free

This man is known for developing tobacco as an important Virginia crop.

John Rolfe

The French and Indian War became a conflict over dominance in ______________ ____________.

North America

Name Virginia's four major rivers.

Potomac, Rappahannock, York, James

During the French and Indian War, the Ohio River Valley was _____________.

The territory that caused the conflict

T of F? Richmond began as a trading town for ships bringing goods up the James River.

True

T or F? The General Assembly as created at Jamestown served to advise the governor.

True

T or F? The Virginia Company founded the colony of Virginia in 1609 and governed it until 1624.

True

Most Conflicts between Native Americans and the Jamestown settlers came because they failed to understand one another's _____________.

culture

Virginia's four major rivers create three peninsulas called ________________.

necks

The joint-stock model allowed people to _____________________.

share the risk

According to Edmund Morgan, the economic system in Virginia had come to see "men as ______________."

things

What was the Spanish name of the Native American who helped establish a Spanish camp in Virginia in 1570 and then betrayed them?

Don Luis de Velasco

King Charles I gave the Burgesses the right to _______________________.

-Levy taxes -Change laws -Regulate the church in Virginia -Form a military

Match each region of Virginia with the correct fact

-Most Populous= Coastal Plain -Largest region= Piedmount -Home of Shenandoah National Park= The Blue Ridge -Known for the agricultural riches of the Shenandoah Valley= The Valley and Ridge -Smallest Region= Appalachian Plateau

Which of the following is NOT true as a result of the establishment of the Church of England as the official church of the Virginia colony?

Citizens were required to give to charity

The Constitution of 1851

Eliminated property requirement for voting entirely

The Constitution of 1870

Established Virginia's first public school system

The Constitution of 1902

Established poll taxes and literacy tests for voting

The Constitution of 1776

Established the Virginia General Assembly

The Constitution of 1830

Expanded suffrage beyond landowners

The ___________ ____________ separates the Coastal Plain and the Piedmont, and is one of Virginia's most important geographical features.

Fall line

T or F? Captain John Smith was the military officer who arrived in 1610 to turn the fortunes of Jamestown.

False; Thomas West, Baron De La Warr, was the military officer

T or F? The first English settlement in the New World was Jamestown.

False; was Roanoke Island

_______________ is the only college in America older than William & Mary.

Harvard

The Great Charter authorized a representative assembly called the _________________ ________________ to govern the Virginia colony.

House of Burgesses/ General Assembly

Most of the Early settlers of Virginia arrived as ____________ ______________.

Indentured Servants

Named royal governor in 1641, _________________________ was one of the most powerful personalities in Virginia history.

Sir William Berkeley

What is the most important aquatic feature of Virginia's geography?

The Chesapeake Bay