1. Race #4

2. 1) The Colonists and British Parliament disagreed over how the colonists should be _______________.

3. governed

4. 2) Parliament believed it had the right to tax the colonies, while colonists believed they should not be taxed because they had ____ _____________ in Parliament.

5. no representation

6. 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.

7. George Washington

8. 4) _________ __________ provided political leadership by expressing the reasons for colonial independence from Great Britain when he wrote the Declaration of Independence.

9. Thomas Jefferson

10. 5) ___________ __________ inspired patriots from other colonies when he spoke out against taxation without representation by saying “…give me liberty or give me death.”

11. Patrick Henry

12. 6) _________ _________, an enslaved African American from Virginia, served in the Continental Army and successfully requested his freedom after the war.

13. James Lafayette

14. 7) Virginians who remained loyal to Great Britain were called?

15. loyalists

16. 8) Virginians who fought in the Continental Army were called?

17. patriots

18. 9) __________ _________ fought on both sides hoping to be free once the war was over.

19. African Americans

20. 10) _________ _________ fought alongside the Virginia patriots, while others fought with the British.

21. American Indians

22. 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.

23. Great Bridge

24. 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.

25. Jack Jouett

26. 13) The American Victory at ___________ resulted in the surrender of the British army, which led to the end of the war.

27. Yorktown

28. 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.

29. James Madison

30. 15) The Virginia Declaration of Rights was written by whom?

31. George Mason

32. 16) The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom states that all people should be free to worship as they please. Who wrote this document?

33. Thomas Jefferson

34. 17) What are the three branches of government in Virginia?

35. Executive branch Legislative branch Judicial branch

36. 18) The ___________ ___________ is the legislative branch of the Virginia Government that makes state laws. It is divided into two parts called ________ and _________.

37. General Assembly Senate and House of Delegates

38. 19) The ________ heads the executive branch of the state government. The executive branch makes sure that state laws are carried out.

39. governor

40. 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.

41. Judicial branch

42. 21) After the American Revolution, many Virginians moved ________ and to the deep _____ in search of better farmland and new opportunities.

43. west and south

44. 19) Settlers crossed the Appalachian Mountains through the ___________ ______ as they migrated to new lands in the west.

45. Cumberland Gap

46. 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.

47. industrialized, agricultural

48. 23) Northern states wanted the new states created out the western territories to be “________ _________,” while the southern states wanted the new states to be “_______ _________.”

49. free states slave states

50. 24) _________ __________ led a revolt against plantation owners in Virginia.

51. Nat Turner

52. 25) _________ __________ supported a secret route that escaped enslaved African Americans took; it became known as the “Underground Railroad.”

53. Harriet Tubman

54. 26) ________ ________ led a raid on the United States Armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

55. John Brown

56. 27) After Abraham Lincoln was elected president, many southern states ________ from the Union and formed the “Confederate States of America.”

57. seceded

58. 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?

59. West Virginia

60. 29) The ______ _________ ___ ____ ______ was the first major clash of the Civil War.

61. First Battle of Bull Run

62. 30) ___________ ________ __ ________, defeated Union troops at Fredericksburg, Virginia.

63. General Robert E. Lee

64. 31) ________ was the capital of the Confederacy.

65. Richmond

66. 32) Richmond fell to General _____ __ _____ and was burned near the end of the war.

67. Ulysses S. Grant

68. 33) The Civil War ended at ___________ _______ _______where Confederate general Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union general Ulysses S. Grant on April 1865.

69. Appomattox Court House