VIRGINIA IN THE CIVIL WAR
1. What was the economy of the
Southern states based on?
2. What was the economy of the
Northern states based on?
3. What is agriculture?
4. What is industry?
5. What is a free state?
6. What is a slave state?
7. What did the Northern states want
new states to become?
8. What did the Southern states want
the new states to become?
9. Where were the new states coming
from?
10. What conflicts developed between
the northern and southern states in
the years following the American
Revolution and led to the Civil War?
11. What did Nat Turner do?
12. What did abolitionists do?
13. What did Harriet Tubman do?
14. What was the route that Harriet
Tubman established called?
15. What did John Brown do?
16. What is an Armory?
17. Why did John Brown lead a raid on
the Armory at Harpers Ferry?
18. What happened to John Brown?
19. When did Abraham Lincoln become
president of the United States?
20.
Agriculture and it relied on slave labor
Industry
One where slavery is not allowed
One where slavery is allowed
Free states
Slave states
They were being created out of the
western territories
• North was industrialized and the
South was agricultural and
depended on slaves.
• North wanted the new states to be
“free states” and the South wanted
them to be “slave states”
He led a revolt against plantation
owners in Virginia.
They campaigned to end slavery
She established a route that escaped
slaves took
The Underground Railroad
He led a raid on the United States
Armory (Arsenal) at Harpers Ferry,
Virginia.
A place where ammunition is stored
He was trying to start a slave rebellion
He was captured and hanged
1860
21. Why did the Africans mainly settle
in the Tidewater and Piedmont
regions?
22. Where were the American Indians
mainly located?
23. What is migration?
24. What did people have to do when
they migrated to a new area?
25. What cultures did the colony of
Virginia reflect?
26. Why did they move Virginia’s capital
from Jamestown to Williamsburg?
Because the agriculture there required
a great deal of labor
32. What is saving?
Money put away to save or to spend at
a later time
Barter
Tidewater, Piedmont and Appalachian
Plateau
They had to adapt their old customs to
their new environment
American Indian, European, African
•
•
Drinking water was contaminated
Dirty living conditions were causing
disease
• Williamsburg is at a higher elevation
• Wooden buildings in Jamestown
burned
27. Why did they move Virginia’s capital • The population was moving
from Williamsburg to Richmond?
westward
• Richmond was a more central
location
• It was a better location for trade
• It increased the distance from
attack by the English
28. What is money?
A medium of exchange (currency,
which includes coins and paper bills)
29. What is barter?
Trading/exchanging of goods and
services without the use of money
30. What is credit?
Buying a good or service now and
paying for it later
31. What is debt?
A good or service owed to another
33. What was used instead of money to
purchase goods and services?
34. Did people have much currency or
coins?
35. What was commonly used to
barter?
36. What did farmers use as barter?
37. What did they pay off their credit
with?
38. Did colonial Virginia have banks?
No
Tobacco
Credit
Their crops
No