2025 Hoganites Virginia Studies SOL
Review
Virginia Patriots fought against the English with this army
Continental Army
Why was the arrival of additional women in Jamestown in 1620 important?
made it possible for settlers to establish families and a more permanent settlement at
Jamestown
led a raid on the US Armory at Harper's Ferry, trying to start a slave rebellion
John Brown
economy of the southern part of the US in the 1860s
agricultural
Southern economy relied heavily on ___________
slave labor
term that means an unfair difference in the treatment of people
discrimination
slave from Virginia who served in the Continental (American) Army and requested his freedom
after the war
James Armistead Lafayette
Before the Civil War, northern states wanted the new states created out of the western territory
to be "______"
free states
Some southern states seceded from the Union after what event?
after Abraham Lincoln became president of the United States in 1860
,country formed by the many southern states, including Virginia, that seceded from the Union
Confederate States of America
Around the Civil War, why did conflict grow between the eastern and western counties in
Virginia?
The eastern counties relied on slave labor & the western counties did not.
city that was used as the capital of the Confederacy
Richmond, Virginia
AD
product discovered in Tazewell County, Virginia
coal
Describe how the Civil War ended.
Robert E. Lee, a Confederate general, surrendered his army to the Union General Ulysses S.
Grant at Appamattox Court House in Virginia in 1865.
An important sea battle took place in Virginia waters near Norfolk and Hampton. The ironclads
involved were:
the Monitor (Union ship) and the Merrimack (Confederate ship)
objects such as pottery, arrowheads, and tools that are left behind by people of the past that
help us learn about past cultures
artifacts
Most white Virginians and some free African Americans supported the __________ during the
Civil War.
Confederacy
Name 2 problems faced by Virginians during Reconstruction.
1. Millions of freed slaves needed housing, jobs, education, clothing, and food.
, 2. Virginia's economy was in ruins.
identify the branches of the Virginia government
1. Executive
2. Legislative
3. Judicial
The Confederacy relied on enslaved African Americans to _______ and _______.
raise crops & provide labor for the army
commander of the Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War
General Robert E. Lee
group of people who did not take sides during the Civil War
most American Indians (Native Americans)
AD
government agency that provided food, schools, and medical care for freed African AMericans
and others of the south after the Civil War
Freedmen's Bureau
period following the Civil War in which Congress passed laws designed to rebuild the country
and bring the southern states back into the Union
Reconstruction
name of the system in which freedmen and poor white farmers rented land from a landowner by
promising to pay the owner with a share of the crop
sharecropping
"Jim Crow" laws made African American and white children attend ______ schools.
separate
Review
Virginia Patriots fought against the English with this army
Continental Army
Why was the arrival of additional women in Jamestown in 1620 important?
made it possible for settlers to establish families and a more permanent settlement at
Jamestown
led a raid on the US Armory at Harper's Ferry, trying to start a slave rebellion
John Brown
economy of the southern part of the US in the 1860s
agricultural
Southern economy relied heavily on ___________
slave labor
term that means an unfair difference in the treatment of people
discrimination
slave from Virginia who served in the Continental (American) Army and requested his freedom
after the war
James Armistead Lafayette
Before the Civil War, northern states wanted the new states created out of the western territory
to be "______"
free states
Some southern states seceded from the Union after what event?
after Abraham Lincoln became president of the United States in 1860
,country formed by the many southern states, including Virginia, that seceded from the Union
Confederate States of America
Around the Civil War, why did conflict grow between the eastern and western counties in
Virginia?
The eastern counties relied on slave labor & the western counties did not.
city that was used as the capital of the Confederacy
Richmond, Virginia
AD
product discovered in Tazewell County, Virginia
coal
Describe how the Civil War ended.
Robert E. Lee, a Confederate general, surrendered his army to the Union General Ulysses S.
Grant at Appamattox Court House in Virginia in 1865.
An important sea battle took place in Virginia waters near Norfolk and Hampton. The ironclads
involved were:
the Monitor (Union ship) and the Merrimack (Confederate ship)
objects such as pottery, arrowheads, and tools that are left behind by people of the past that
help us learn about past cultures
artifacts
Most white Virginians and some free African Americans supported the __________ during the
Civil War.
Confederacy
Name 2 problems faced by Virginians during Reconstruction.
1. Millions of freed slaves needed housing, jobs, education, clothing, and food.
, 2. Virginia's economy was in ruins.
identify the branches of the Virginia government
1. Executive
2. Legislative
3. Judicial
The Confederacy relied on enslaved African Americans to _______ and _______.
raise crops & provide labor for the army
commander of the Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War
General Robert E. Lee
group of people who did not take sides during the Civil War
most American Indians (Native Americans)
AD
government agency that provided food, schools, and medical care for freed African AMericans
and others of the south after the Civil War
Freedmen's Bureau
period following the Civil War in which Congress passed laws designed to rebuild the country
and bring the southern states back into the Union
Reconstruction
name of the system in which freedmen and poor white farmers rented land from a landowner by
promising to pay the owner with a share of the crop
sharecropping
"Jim Crow" laws made African American and white children attend ______ schools.
separate
