Virginia

VA History Vocabulary Aligned with the VA SOLs

Spelling Survivors Growth Chart Vocabulary History SOL VS.6 & VS.10 Growth

Function in the community attend school; listen, learn, try hard and behave

1. Student 2. Citizen a resident of the USA; remain loyal; vote 3. Apprentice learn a skill by working with an expert 4. Farmer grow crops to eat and to sell 5. Merchant own and run a store in the community 6. Burgess make laws for the colonies - legislative work 7. Patriot fight for the colonies during the Revolutionary War 8. Rebel fight for the Confederacy during the Civil War 9. Councilman make the local laws - legislative branch 10. Mayor enforce local laws - executive branch 11. Judge judge local laws - judicial branch 12. General Assembly make VA laws - legislative branch 13. Delegate half of VA General Assembly (population) 14. VA Senator half of VA General Assembly (2 per district) 15. Governor enforce VA laws - executive branch 16. VA Supreme Court Justice judge VA laws - judicial branch 17. Congress make US laws - legislative branch 18. Representative half of US Congress (population) 19. US Senator half of US Congress (2 per state) 20. President enforce US laws - executive branch When you run for office at any level, your function is to convince the voters you are the BEST person for the job.

Bonus 1. US Supreme Court Justice 2. Roanoke 3. Richmond 4. Virginia

judge US laws - judicial branch

Early Virginia/Geography Vocabulary SOL VS.2, VS.3 1. research 2. geography 3. Native American 4. language group 5. Indian 6. region 7. Tidewater (region) 8. Piedmont (region) 9. Ridge and Valley (region) 10. tribe 11. settler 12. fact 13. opinion 14. Richmond 15. Williamsburg 16. Jamestown 17. fall line 18. peninsula 19. plateau 20. artifact BONUS 1. Virginia 2. Iroquois 3. Algonquian 4. Sioux 5. Powhatan 6. Cherokee 7. Chesapeake Bay 8. Atlantic Ocean 9. Shenandoah (Valley) 10. Appalachian (Plateau) (region)

Revolutionary War Vocabulary SOL VS.4, VS.5 1. colony 2. revolution 3. declaration 4. liberty 5. taxes 6. July 4, 1776 7. Yorktown 8. George Washington 9. Europe 10. Africa 11. barter 12. economy 13. England 14. Independence 15. Thomas Jefferson 16. boycott 17. Stamp Act 18. Richard Henry Lee 19. loyalist 20. patriot Bonus 1. militia 2. Parliament 3. Continental Congress 4. representation 5. Great Britain 6. James Armistead Lafayette 7. architecture 8. transportation

Government Vocabulary SOL VS.6, VS.10 1. constitution 2. James Madison 3. amendment 4. branch 5. government 6. freedom 7. compromise 8. Executive (Branch) 9. president 10. governor 11. mayor 12. Legislative (Branch) 13. Congress 14. General Assembly 15. House of Delegates 16. Senate 17. Judicial (Branch) 18. Supreme Court 19. justice 20. We the People Bonus 1. Bill of Rights 2. Articles of Confederation 3. representative 4. statute 5. democracy 6. republic 7. document

Civil War Vocabulary SOL VS.7 1. Civil War 2. secede 3. Rebel 4. Yankee 5. Confederate 6. Richmond 7. Fort Sumter 8. Bull Run 9. Manassas 10. Appomattox 11. Stonewall Jackson 12. industrial 13. slave 14. agricultural 15. score 16. Abraham Lincoln 17. Robert E. Lee 18. abolitionist 19. state’s rights 20. Jefferson Davis Bonus 1. Ulysses S. Grant 2. Emancipation Proclamation 3. Gettysburg Address 4. rebellion 5. migration 6. routes

Reconstruction Vocabulary SOL VS.8 1. Reconstruction 2. state constitution 3. amendment 4. thirteenth (amendment) 5. fourteenth (amendment) 6. fifteenth (amendment) 7. segregation 8. Jim Crow Laws 9. carpetbagger 10. scalawag 11. poll tax 12. literacy test 13. rural 14. urban 15. civil rights 16. Freedman’s Bureau 17. impeachment 18. density 19. Maggie Walker 20. Booker T. Washington BONUS 1. sharecropping 2. immigration 3. product

20th Century Vocabulary SOL VS.9 1. segregation 2. massive resistance 3. discrimination 4. prejudice 5. civil rights 6. integration 7. New Deal 8. economy 9. credit 10. interest 11. loan 12. density 13. Douglas Wilder 14. Woodrow Wilson 15. Norfolk Navy Base 16. war 17. World (Wars) 18. Korean (War) 19. Vietnam (War) 20. Desert Storm BONUS 1. technology 2. megalopolis 3. Arthur Ashe 4. Harry F. Byrd, Sr. 5. Martin Luther King, Jr. 6. population 7. service

Review Most Important 5th Grade VA History Words 1. Virginia 2. Richmond 3. General Assembly 4. governor 5. constitution 6. colony 7. Declaration of Independence 8. economy 9. Civil War 10. July 4, 1776 11. taxes 12. segregation 13. reconstruction 14. rebel 15. revolution 16. Native American 17. fall line 18. history 19. region 20. patriot Bonus 1. sequence 2. megalopolis 3. democracy 4. Articles of Confederation 5. Emancipation Proclamation 6. climate