Virginia Government and Economics

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Answer the questions below.

  1. What are the major products and industries in the Tidewater region?
  2. Your answer:
    Technology, federal and state government, farming, textiles, tobacco
    Poultry, apples, farming
    Shipbuilding, tourism, federal military installations, seafood
    coal, coal mining


  3. What are the major products and industries in the Piedmont region?
  4. Your answer:
    Technology, federal and state government, farming, textiles, tobacco
    Poultry, apples, farming
    Shipbuilding, tourism, federal military installations, seafood
    coal, coal mining


  5. What are the major products and industries in the Valley and Ridge region?
  6. Your answer:
    Technology, federal and state government, farming, textiles, tobacco
    Poultry, apples, farming
    Shipbuilding, tourism, federal military installations, seafood
    coal, coal mining


  7. What is NOT a major part of Virginia's transportation system?
  8. Your answer:
    highways
    railroads
    air transportation
    Appalachian Trail


  9. What does Virginia export?
  10. Your answer:
    tobacco, poultry, coal, and large ships
    corn, soybeans, squash and beans
    apples, seafood, tobacco, and coal
    tourism, recreation, farming and textiles


  11. Who was the first African American to advocate social change and win a major tennis championship?
  12. Your answer:
    L. Douglas Wilder
    Maggie L. Walker
    Arthur Ashe
    Nat Turner


  13. Who was the first African American elected as a state governor?
  14. Your answer:
    L. Douglas Wilder
    Maggie L. Walker
    Arthur Ashe
    Nat Turner



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