Virginia Geography
This region is characterized by flat land located near the Atlantic Ocean and Chesapeake Bay
Coastal Plain
Jamestown was founded in this year
1607
This cash crop became the primary source of wealth for the Virginia colony.
tobacco
He was the primary author of the U.S. Constitution and is known as the "Father of the Constitution".
James Madison
This African American woman served as a spy in the Confederate White House for the Union.
Mary Bowser
This piece of land is a flat, low-lying peninsula located east of the Chesapeake Bay.
Eastern Shore
This document from the King of England gave the Virginia Company the right to establish a colony.
Virginia Company of London Charter
This group of people was brought to the colony against their will to provide labor for plantations.
Enslaved African Americans
This Virginian wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights.
George Mason
These laws were designed to enforce racial segregation and limit the rights of African Americans
Jim Crow laws
This region features old, rounded mountains and is the source of many rivers.
Blue Ridge Mountains
This important Indigenous leader lived in the village of Werowocomoco.
Chief Powhatan
This group of Indigenous people primarily spoke the Siouan language and lived in this region
Piedmont region
Thomas Jefferson wrote this document, which served as the basis for the First Amendment.
Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
This 1896 Supreme Court case upheld the "separate but equal" doctrine.
Plessy v. Ferguson
To travel westward, early settlers crossed the Appalachian Mountains through this specific gap.
Cumberland Gap
Settlers moved the capital from Jamestown to this city in 1699 to find cleaner living conditions.
Williamsburg
This tribe spoke Algonquian and was mostly in the Coastal Plain Region
Powhatan
This Virginian served as the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army and the first U.S. President.
George Washington
This organization provided schools, legal assistance, and healthcare to freedmen after the Civil War
Freedmen’s Bureau
This geographic feature separates the Tidewater and Piedmont regions where waterfalls prevent further travel upriver.
Fall Line
The arrival of this group of people in 1619 allowed for families and a more permanent settlement
Women
This season native Americans would have harvested crops
fall
These colonists remained loyal to Great Britain and faced risks like loss of property and physical attacks.
Loyalists
This Virginian refused to give up her seat on a bus in 1944, years before the modern Civil Rights Movement.
Irene Morgan