Jamestown, Williamsburg, or Richmond
Centrally located within the state on the James River and the current Virginia capital
What is Richmond?
What is the House of Burgesses
Stirred the desire in the colonies to go to war against the British in his famous "Liberty or Death" speech
Who is Patrick Henry?
The first land battle of the war in Virginia
What is the Battle of Great Bridge? (1775)
The city and year of the Treaty of Paris signing
What is Paris in 1783?
Land was swampy and close to the Chesapeake Bay, also the first capital of Virginia
What is Jamestown?
Lawmakers in Colonial Virginia were from the Gentry class. Gentry means...
What is high class/nobles?
British Lord who surrendered his army to General George Washington at Yorktown
Who is Cornwallis?
Location of the surrender of the British to end the Revolutionary War
What is Yorktown, Virginia?
Father of our country
Who is George Washington?
Capital named to honor King William and seven miles further inland than the first capital
What is Williamsburg?
This document was made official on June 12, 1776
What is the Virginia Declaration of Rights?
King of England during the time of the American Revolutionary War
Who is King George III?
The date of the surrender at Yorktown
What is October 19, 1781?
Colonists who wanted to become independent from British rule
Who were Patriots?
Originally called Middle Plantation and the location of the college of William and Mary
What is Williamsburg?
This document was made official on July 4, 1776
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Enslaved African who was a spy in the Revolutionary War for the Continental Army
Who was James Lafayette?
Soldiers who pledged to be ready to fight at a minute's notice
Minutemen
Writer of the Virginia Declaration of Rights
Who was George Mason?
Easiest to defend from the British during the Revolutionary War
What is Richmond?
Father of the Constitution
Who is James Madison?
Writer of the Declaration of Independence
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
The years of the American Revolutionary War
What is 1775-1781?
Colonists who remained committed to British authority
Who were loyalists?