Important Virginia Studies People

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  1. 5. first African American elected as state governor
  2. 7. known for the Underground Railroad
  3. 8. wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights
  4. 10. an enslaved spy during the American Revolution
  5. 11. led a strike against poor school conditions in Farmville, VA
  6. 14. appointed more women and African Americans to government positions than any other governor
  7. 16. stole a Confederate ship and later became a Union Navy Captain
  8. 18. French nobleman that helped at the victory of Yorktown
  9. 20. General of the Army of Northern Virginia
  10. 21. established the American Red Cross
  11. 23. first African American to win a singles men's tennis championship
  12. 25. served as a contact between the native people and Jamestown settlers
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  1. 1. tried to start a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry
  2. 2. took detailed notes during the Constitutional Convention
  3. 3. General for the Union Army during the Civil War
  4. 4. Wrote the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom
  5. 6. modernized state government, pay-as-you-go, Massive Resistance
  6. 9. when elected president, southern states seceded
  7. 12. lawyer who played an important role during Brown v. Board of Education
  8. 13. earned his nickname at the Battle of Bull Run
  9. 15. first woman to become a bank president
  10. 17. "Give me liberty or give me death"
  11. 19. African American spy for the Union Army during the Civil War
  12. 22. role model for future presidents
  13. 24. If you don't work, you don't eat