Virginia Studies SOL 7a, b The Civil War

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Virginia Studies SOL 7a, bThe Civil War

• Julie Elliott
• Pungoteague Elementary School
• April 2007

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Who led a slave revolt against plantation owners
in Virginia?

1. Harriet Tubman
2. Nat Turner
3. John Brown
4. Robert E. Lee

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Who participated in a secret route that escaped
slaves took known as the Underground Railroad?

1. Harriet Tubman
2. Nat Turner
3. John Brown
4. Robert E. Lee

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Who led a raid on the United States Armory at
Harpers Ferry, Virginia trying to start a slave
rebellion?

1. Harriet Tubman
2. Nat Turner
3. John Brown
4. Robert E. Lee

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During the 1820s, what did northern states want
new states created out of the western territory
to be?

1. new states
2. slave states
3. free states
4. old states

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Who became president of the United States in
1860, after some southern states, including
Virginia, seceded from the Union?

1. Jefferson Davis
2. Abraham Lincoln
3. Robert E. Lee
4. Thomas Stonewall Jackson

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Which state was formed when conflict grew between
the eastern counties that relied on slave labor
and the western counties that favored the
abolition of slavery?

1. North Carolina
2. Tennessee
3. West Virginia
4. Maryland

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Where did Confederate General Thomas Stonewall
Jackson play a major role?

1. Fredericksburg
2. Bull Run (or Manassas)
3. Norfolk
4. Hampton

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What was the capital of the Confederacy?

1. Washington, D.C.
2. Petersburg
3. Manassas
4. Richmond

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Where did the battle of two ironclad ships take
place in Virginias waters?

1. Hampton Roads
2. Potomac River
3. New River
4. Rappahannock River

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Who was the Commander of the Army of Northern
Virginia and defeated Union troops at
Fredericksburg, Virginia?

1. Ulysses S. Grant
2. Abraham Lincoln
3. Thomas Stonewall Jackson
4. Robert E. Lee

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Where did Robert E. Lee surrender to Ulysses S.
Grant in April 1865?

1. Washington, D.C.
2. Manassas, Virginia
3. Appomattox Court House, Virginia
4. Richmond, Virginia

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What city was burned at the end of the Civil War?

1. Washington
2. Norfolk
3. Richmond
4. Alexandria

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