Virginia Studies People

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