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QUESTIONS

  • 1. What was the condition of the colony after Bacon's Rebellion?

  • 2. What was the Tobacco Rebellion?

  • 3. How did the royal governors regard the people?

  • 4. In what manner did Lord Culpeper treat the people?

  • 5. Relief came in what way?

  • 6. How was the English revolution of 1688 beneficial to Virginia?

  • 7. What policy did the government adopt, and with what result?

  • 8. Who were the Huguenots, and why did they come to Virginia?

  • 9. When and where was William and Mary College founded?


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  • 10. What city was founded at the same place?

  • 11. Describe Governor Nicholson's design for the streets.

  • 12. What population did Virginia have at the close of the seventeenth
    century?

  • 13. Who was Alexander Spotswood, and how was he received?

  • 14. What legal right did he bring to the people?

  • 15. What did he establish in Virginia?

  • 16. Give an account of Spotswood's crossing the Blue Ridge.

  • 17. What did they do on reaching the summit, and how did they commemorate
    the event?

  • 18. When and by whom were the cities of Richmond and Petersburg
    founded?

  • 19. What invitation did the Virginia Gazette give to the public?

  • 20. Give an account of the gradual settlement of the valley of Virginia.

  • 21. Of what nationality were its settlers?