Sample WV History Test One--1606 thru 1749 (Feedback Needed for Accuracy)

 

Question 1:

What year was the first charter of Virginia granted to the London Company by King James I?

1. 1606
2. 1607
3. 1619
4. 1624

Question 2:

What year was the first colony of West Virginia founded?

1. 1670
2. 1671
3. 1673
4. 1681

Question 3:

What year was the first permanent English colony in America founded?

1. 1607
2. 1619
3. 1624
4. 1634

Question 4:

What year was slavery introduced to Virginia?

1. 1619
2. 1624
3. 1634
4. 1641

Question 5:

What year was the first counties, designed as "shires", formed in Virginia?

1. 1634
2. 1641
3. 1669-70
4. 1670

Question 6:

What year was the New River discovered by Walter Chiles, Rice Hoe, Walter Austin, and Joseph Johnson?

1. 1641
2. 1669-70
3. 1670
4. 1671

Question 7:

What year was the Ohio River discovered, as far as the falls of Louisville, Kentucky, by LaSalle?

1. 1670
2. 1671
3. 1673
4. 1681

Question 8:

What year did an expedition, sent out "for the finding out the ebbing and flowing of ye South Sea", reach what is believed to have been the Falls of Great Kanawha?

1. 1670
2. 1671
3. 1673
4. 1681

Question 9:

What year was the patent obtained for a large tract of land in Virginia, the "Northern Neck", later known as the "Fairfax Grant"?

1. 1681
2. 1699
3. 1716
4. 1720-30

Question 10:

What year was the capital of Virginia changed from Jamestown to Williamsburg, where Virginia's first college, William and Mary, was chartered in 1693?

1. 1699
2. 1716
3. 1720-30
4. 1735-36