V's

Question 1

Vagabond Profession

Answer 1

the name given to the popular theater in the mid-nineteenth-century by churches and conservatives who condemned it

Question 2

Valley Forge

Answer 2

the site of the 1778 defeat of the British by American forces

Question 3

Martin Van Buren

Answer 3

(known as “Old Kinderhook”) the president elected in 1836 whose main accomplishment was to eventually persuade Congress to establish an Independent Treasury to handle government funds, which began functioning in 1840

Question 4

Vermont

Answer 4

admitted as a state in the Union in 1791

Question 5

Virginia Company of London

Answer 5

an English joint-stock company that, having gained a charter to colonize in North America from the king of England, sent an expedition in 1607 to settle in Jamestown, Virginia, which became the first permanent English settlement in North America

Question 6

Virginia Company of Plymouth

Answer 6

an English joint-stock company that, having gained a charter to colonize in North America from the king of England, sent an unsuccessful expedition in 1607 to settle in Maine

Question 7

Virginia Plan

Answer 7

a plan devised by James Madison and introduced by fellow Virginian Edmund Randolf that called for an executive branch and two houses of Congress, each based on population

Question 8

Vulcanizing Rubber

Answer 8

a process invented by Charles Goodyear in 1843 that was put to 500 different uses and formed the basis for an entire new industry