Regions of Virginia
Native Peoples
Rivers of Virginia
Definitions
People of Virginia History
100
This region has mostly flat land and is closest to the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the coastal plain or tidewater region?
100
These are the three major language groups found in Virginia.
What is Algonquian, Siouan, and Iroquoian?
100

How many major rivers in Virginia History are there?

What is four?

100

To trade good or services without the use of money.

What is bartering?

100

The Commander-in-Cheif of the Continental Army.

Who was George Washington?

200
This region contains old mountains, is the source of many rivers, and is located between the Piedmont and Valley and Ridge regions.
What is the Blue Ridge Mountains?
200
This language was spoken in Southwestern Virginia and an Southern Virginia near what is today North Carolina.
What is Iroquoian?
200

This river is the southernmost major river in Virginia that flows through Richmond to the Chesapeake Bay.

What is the James River?

200

To purchase something now with the promise to pay for it later.

What is credit?

200

Said "Give me liberty or give me death".

Who was Patrick Henry?

300
This region is located west of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
What is the Valley and Ridge region?
300
This group of American Indians was part of the Algonquian language group.
What is Powhatan?
300

This river is the northernmost river in Virginia that flows through Alexandria to the Chesapeake Bay.

What is the Potomac River?

300

To owe someone for a good or service.

What is debt?

300

He wrote the Declaration of Independence.

Who is Thomas Jefferson?

400
This region has rolling hills and is West of the Fall Line.
What is the Piedmont region?
400
They are Virginia's Indians.
Who are the Eastern Woodland Indians?
400

Fredericksburg is located along this river as it flows into the Chesapeake Bay.

What is the Rappahannock River?

400

The way the landscape changes to reflect the people who live there based on their culture.

What is cultural landscape?

400

He saved Thomas Jefferson from being arrested by British soldiers.

Who was Jack Jouett?

500
Only part of this region is in Virginia, and it resides in the Southwest portion.
What is the Appalachian Plateau?
500
These people study all kinds of material evidence left by people from the past.
Who are archaeologists?
500

This river flows through Yorktown before it flows into the Chesapeake Bay.

What is the York River?

500

This guarantees Virginians' rights like freedom of speech and freedom of the press. It was written by George Mason and was used to write the U.S. Bill of Rights. 

What is the Virginia Declaration of Rights?

500

He spied on the British and earned his freedom.

Who was James Lafayette?

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